Confessions of Arsene Lupin
This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.
The character of Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905; it is also possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau''s Les 21 jours d''un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief...
This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.
The character of Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905; it is also possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau''s Les 21 jours d''un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief...
