The Crystal Stopper

by Maurice Leblanc

Overview

In this adventure mystery novel, Arsene Lupin, the world's greatest thief, may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning roberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping. Lupin must thus save his men from the

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849172947
Publisher:	tredition
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer who lived from 11 December 1864 to 6 November 1941. Arsène Lupin, the fictitious gentleman thief and detective which is sometimes referred to be a French equivalent to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. In the science fiction books Les Trois Yeux (1919) and Le Formidable Evènement (1920), an earthquake forms a landmass between England and France. He was born in Paris in 1859 and raised in Rouen, where he regularly came into contact with Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert. His first book, "Une femme" (A Woman), which was published in 1893, was very well received. Other books, including "Des couples" (The Couples) and his sole play, "La pitié," which was published in 1902, followed. He released "L'Enthousiasme," an autobiographical book, in 1901. He released "L'Enthousiasme," an autobiographical book, in 1901. He attempted to murder his hero in the novella "813" as early as 1910, but would later that year revive the figure. He purchased an Anglo-Norman home in Étretat in 1918, where he created 39 short tales and 19 novels. He fled Clos Lupin in 1939 and sought safety in Perpignan because of the impending war with Nazi Germany. He passed on there in 1941.