Lupin wants to steal the items in order to humiliate Britain, but he also admires Holmes and thus challenges him to try to stop him. In this game Holmes (and occasionally others) are attempting to stop Lupin from stealing five valuable British items. Sherlock Holmes, this time with his real name and accompanied by familiar characters such as Watson and Lestrade (all copyright protection having long expired), also confronted Arsène Lupin in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin. In 813, Lupin manages to solve a riddle that Herlock Sholmes was unable to figure out. It is also stated in this book that Arsene Lupin is a vegetarian for 'hygiene' reasons though he is not averse to eating meat to avoid being eccentric or stand-out when in company while on the job. Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes was published in the United States in 1910 under the title 'The Blonde Lady' which used the name 'Holmlock Shears' for Sherlock Holmes, and 'Wilson' for Watson. Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, 'Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes', and then in a guest-starring role in the battle for the secret of the Hollow Needle in L'Aiguille creuse.

After legal objections from Arthur Conan Doyle, the name was changed to 'Herlock Sholmes' when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1. In it, an aged Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. Leblanc introduced Sherlock Holmes to Lupin in the short story 'Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late' in Je sais tout No. Five authorized sequels were written in the 1970s by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac. 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. Cover of 'Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur' (1907)

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