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Arsène Lupin
1909
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
252
Number of Pages

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:

  1. The Millionaire's Daughter
  2. The Coming of the Charolais
  3. Lupin's Way
  4. The Duke Intervenes
  5. A Letter from Lupin
  6. Again the Charolais
  7. The Theft of the Motor-Cars
  8. The Duke Arrives
  9. M. Formery Opens the Inquiry
  10. Guerchard Assist
  11. The Family Arrives
  12. The Theft of the Pendant
  13. Lupin Wires
  14. Guerchard Picks up the True Scent
  15. The Examination of Sonia
  16. Victoire's Slip
  17. Sonia's Escape
  18. The Duke Stays
  19. The Duke Goes
  20. Lupin Comes Home
  21. The Cutting of the Telephone Wires
  22. The Bargain
  23. The End of the Duel
Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
1,249
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
1%
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Author

Edgar Jepson
Author · 6 books

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."

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