The Blonde Lady (Arsne Lupin)

The Blonde Lady Sees Arsne Lupin (The GentlemanBurglar) Once Again Meeting His Enemy, The English Detective Herlock Sholmes. These Two Great Intellects Are Bound In Opposite Directions, Where One Chooses To Abide To The Law And The Other Uses His Power And Wits To Crime. This Early Work By Maurice Leblanc Was Originally Published In 1908 And We Are Now Republishing It With A Brand New Introductory Biography. Maurice Marie mile Leblanc Was Born On 11Th November 1864 In Rouen, Normandy, France. He Was A Novelist And Writer Of Short Stories, Known Primarily As The Creator Of The Fictional Gentleman Thief And Detective, Arsne Lupin. Leblanc Spent His Early Education At The Lyce Pierre Corneille (In Rouen), And After Studying In Several Countries And Dropping Out Of Law School, He Settled In Paris And Began To Write Fiction. From The Start, Leblanc Wrote Both Short Crime Stories And Longer Novels And His Lengthier Tomes, Heavily Influenced By Writers Such As Flaubert And Maupassant, Were Critically Admired, But Met With Little Commercial Success. Leblanc Was Largely Considered Little More Than A Writer Of Short Stories For Various French Periodicals When The First Arsne Lupin Story Appeared. It Was Published As A Series Of Stories In The Magazine Je Sais Trout, Starting On 15Th July, 1905. Clearly Created At Editorial Request Under The Influence Of, And In Reaction To, The Wildly Successful Sherlock Holmes Stories, The Roguish And Glamorous Lupin Was A Surprise Success And LeblancS Fame And Fortune Beckoned. In Total, Leblanc Went On To Write TwentyOne Lupin Novels Or Collections Of Short Stories. On This Success, He Later Moved To A Beautiful CountrySide Retreat In treat (In The HauteNormandie Region In NorthWestern France), Which Today Is A Museum Dedicated To The Arsne Lupin Books. Leblanc Was Awarded The Lgion DHonneur The Highest Decoration In France For His Services To Literature. He Died In Perpignan (The Capital Of The PyrnesOrientales Department In Southern France) On 6Th November 1941, At The Age Of SeventySix. He Is Buried In The Prestigious Montparnasse Cemetery Of Paris.