Crystal stopper / Maurice Leblanc.
Material type: TextPublication details: Mumbai A Wilco Book, 2021.Description: 271 p. 20 cmISBN:- 978-9386869234
- The crystal stopper
- 823.912 LEB
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823.912 LEA Beatrix Potter: a life in nature / | 823.912 LEB Confessions of Arsene Lupin / | 823.912 LEB Gentleman Burglar / | 823.912 LEB Crystal stopper / | 823.912 LEB Eight strokes of the clock / | 823.912 LEB Return of Arsene Lupin / | 823.912 LEB Hollow needle: further adventures of Arsene Lupin / |
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The Crystal Stopper is another favourite mystery novel by Leblanc where during a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq, a crime is committed and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile 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, Arsène Lupin.
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 Arsène 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 Leblanc's fame and fortune beckoned. In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories.
On this success, he later moved to a beautiful country-side retreat in Étreat (in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France), which today is a museum dedicated to the Arsène Lupin books. Leblanc was awarded the Légion d'Honneur - the highest decoration in France - for his services to literature. He is buried in the prestigious Montparnasse Cemetery of Paris.
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