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Ars ne Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (published in French as Ars ne Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur) is the first collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc recounting the adventures of Ars ne Lupin, released on 10 June 1907. Containing the first eight stories depicting the character, each was first published in the French magazine Je sais tout. The first story, The Arrest of Ars ne Lupin, was published in the magazine on 15 July 1905. The seventh story in this collection features English detective Sherlock Holmes, changed in subsequent publications to "Herlock Sholmes" after protests from Arthur Conan Doyle's lawyers. This match of wits continues in the second collection of stories, Ars ne Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes. However, the second work was actually a play subsequently novelized by the author along with Edgar Jepson, which appears here as the second work; and the Herlock Sholmes as the third work.
In The Hollow Needle, Ars ne Lupin is opposed by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to give Ars ne Lupin a big headache. In the Ars ne Lupin universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the Kings of France, as revealed to Ars ne Lupin by Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924).
In The Hollow Needle, Ars ne Lupin is opposed by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to give Ars ne Lupin a big headache. In the Ars ne Lupin universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the Kings of France, as revealed to Ars ne Lupin by Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924).
