The character has also appeared in a number of books by other writers as well as numerous film, television, stage play, and comic book adaptations. The number becomes 25 if the 1923 novel The Secret Tomb is counted: Lupin does not appear in it, but the main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books. The first story, 'The Arrest of Arsène Lupin', was published on 15 July 1905. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. Theophraste Lupin (father, deceased), Henriette D'Andresy (mother, deceased)Īrsène Lupin ( French pronunciation: ) is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The fifth episode of the series was filmed in and around the commune of Étretat where Maurice Leblanc owned a home which is now the Clos Lupin Museum.Cover of 'Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur' (1907) a Lupin novel at a formative age, and Assane treats the Lupin stories as his own personal Bible 'spectacular crimes'. According to Rolling Stone (magazine), 'both the show and the character of Assane take their inspiration from Arsène Lupin. In January 2021, Netflix began streaming the Lupin (TV series) of five episodes they take place in current times and feature fictional master thief Assane Diop. However, he did not realize that the château was built by Louis XIV, the king of France, to put people off the track of a needle in Normandy, near the town of Le Havre, where Arsène Lupin, known also under the name of Louis Valméras, has hidden himself.Ī direct sequel to this novel, featuring Lupin against La Griffe, is the novel Le second visage d'Arsène Lupin by Boileau-Narcejac in 1975.

When Isidore Beautrelet discovers the Château de l'Aiguille in the department of Creuse, he thinks that he has found the solution to the riddle ('l'Aiguille Creuse' being French for 'The Hollow Needle', and also the French title of the novel).

The legendary needle contains the most fabulous treasure ever imagined, a collection of queens' dowries, pearls, rubies, sapphires and diamonds. The Mystery of the Hollow Needle hides a secret that the Kings of France have been handing down since the time of Julius Caesar. In the Arsène Lupin universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the kings of France, as revealed to Arsène Lupin by Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924). Arsène Lupin is opposed this time by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to give Arsène Lupin a big headache.

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