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surrealist sensational trio

1/24/2021

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We are so excited to be releasing three new editions of these classic turn of the century detective and ‘master-thief’ novels. This is the Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, a Netfilx series of which is making such a sensation. Here in print, is the original source. And there is the much loved by the surrealist Fantômas, considered a sensational trio with two early films Judex and Les Vampires. And before she wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy wrote Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. There is a link in the bio to assist in your book buying and surreal experience.
 
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar  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 on 15 July 1905.
 
Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless thief and killer, a bloodthirsty successor to LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin. The first five novels were made into silent film serials. In Fantômas, the Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered and Inspector Juve, who is obsessed with capturing Fantômas, arrives to solve the murder.
 
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented two turn-of-the-century detectives in The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
 
First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. The book soon became very popular, with three editions appearing in the first year. As well as being one of the first novels to feature a female detective as the main character, Orczy's outstandingly successful police officer preceded her real life female counterparts by a decade.

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