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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