The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc & Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (trans.)

Book 6 of Arsène Lupin

Language: English

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: Dec 28, 2018

Collection: Fiction
Reading Ease: 88.74
Page Count: 251
Word Count: 66470

Description:

The gentleman-thief relates stories of his outwitting the Parisian detectives.

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The gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin returns in this set of ten short stories to confess—or perhaps boast about—his crimes to the unnamed narrator. Mostly set around Lupin’s attempts to frustrate Chief-Inspector Ganimard and pocket some cash in the process, they also show off his knack for escaping from seemingly impossible situations, and even playing the role of the master detective.

In the chronology of Arsène Lupin, these tales were published after, but set before, the darker stories of The Hollow Needle and 813. They were serialised in Je Sais Tout from 1911, and collected into a single publication in 1913.