
The first entry in Maurice LeBlance's long-running series about France's hero-thief Arsene Lupin. This is a novelization by Edgar Jepson based on the play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset. Chapters:
- The Millionaire's Daughter
- The Coming of the Charolais
- Lupin's Way
- The Duke Intervenes
- A Letter from Lupin
- Again the Charolais
- The Theft of the Motor-Cars
- The Duke Arrives
- M. Formery Opens the Inquiry
- Guerchard Assist
- The Family Arrives
- The Theft of the Pendant
- Lupin Wires
- Guerchard Picks up the True Scent
- The Examination of Sonia
- Victoire's Slip
- Sonia's Escape
- The Duke Stays
- The Duke Goes
- Lupin Comes Home
- The Cutting of the Telephone Wires
- The Bargain
- The End of the Duel
Author
Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth, Hugh Clevely and possibly Arthur Machen, long-term friends. He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair magazine, where he employed Richard Middleton, and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc. He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club. As a literary dynasty: his son Selwyn Jepson was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing. Jepson was friends with the English mystery writer Hugh Clevely and even shared the same pseudonym "Tod Claymore." They co-wrote the novel "The Man With the Amber Eyes."