Arsène Lupin: Gentleman Burglar

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He robs only those who deserve it, returns what has sentimental value, signs his thefts, and warns his victims in advance. He is a master of disguise, an escape artist, and an incorrigible show-off — and when Maurice Leblanc introduced him in 1905, France fell in love immediately.

This first collection contains the stories that made him: the transatlantic crossing on which a wireless message reveals that Arsène Lupin is aboard under an assumed name, and the passengers begin to suspect one another; his arrest, his imprisonment, and the trial at which he contrives not to be present; the escape; and the first encounter with the English detective Leblanc called Herlock Sholmès after Conan Doyle's publishers objected to the original.

Lupin is the great counterweight to Holmes — where the Englishman restores order, the Frenchman delights in overturning it, and does so with charm rather than violence. A century later the character has outlived most of his contemporaries, and these early stories show exactly why: they are fast, funny, and constructed like conjuring tricks. This is an unabridged recording of a fresh modern translation.