The Arsène Lupin Omnibus (4-books-in-1)

The inspiration behind the smash-hit Netflix series.

Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in
1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc and first introduced in a series of
short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout.

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (published in French as Arsène Lupin,
gentleman-cambrioleur) is the first collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc
recounting the adventures of Arsène 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
Arsène 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, Arsène 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, Arsène Lupin is opposed by Isidore Beautrelet, a young
but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to
give Arsène Lupin a big headache. In the Arsène 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 Arsène Lupin by
Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924). The Mystery
of the Hollow Needle hides a secret that the Kings of France have been handing
down since the time of Julius Caesar... and now Arsène Lupin has mastered it.
The legendary needle contains the most fabulous treasure ever imagined, a
collection of queens' dowries, pearls, rubies, sapphires and diamonds... the
fortune of the kings of France.

Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Maurice Leblanc, with the
novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books.
This omnibus collects the first four works including Arsène Lupin-Gentleman
Burglar; Arsène Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes; The Hollow Needle and bonus
novel Arsène Lupin (from a play by leblanc novelized by Edgar Jepson).