Set in Paris with an entirely French-speaking cast (it’s best watched with subtitles, not dubbed), the show is inspired by a series of novels about Arsene Lupin, the original “gentleman thief.” In the English Robin Hood version, the man who wears Lincoln green has been wronged by those who are in power. In the Netflix version of Lupin, the underlying story is that Lupin is seeking to avenge the unfair imprisonment and disputed suicide of his father. As a youth, this Lupin is fascinated by a book by Maurice Leblanc, author of the Book Date Rating; The Exploits of Arsene Lupin: 3.5: The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin: Gentleman Burglar: 0: In Pursuit of Arsene Lupin: 1: The Hollow Needle: 0: Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief: 4.5: Arsene Lupin: 0: The Confessions of Arsene Lupin: 0: Arsene Lupin In Prison: 0: The Escape Of Arsene Lupin: 0 Maurice Leblanc. 1,923 books784 followers. Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941) was a French novelist, best known as the creator of gentleman thief (later detective) Arsène Lupin. Leblanc began as a journalist, until he was asked to write a short story filler, and created, more gallant and dashing than English counterpart Sherlock Holmes. 30 books · 1 voter · list created April 28th, 2020 by Reader453. Tags: arsene-lupin , french-classics , gentleman-thief , lupin , lupin-iii , maurice-leblanc , netflix Like Assane Diop (Omar Sy) – Lupin (2021) The plot of the series begins at the Louvre Museum, where we discover Assane Diop (Omar Sy) disguised as a janitor admiring the various works of art in the place. We quickly understand that he is not in the museum to clean, but to scout. Indeed, being a gentleman burglar, his objective is to steal the Luis Perenna—an anagram of Arsene Lupin, as we will later find out—is in fact Assane Diop. Using the tricks he learnt from Leblanc’s book, Assane will try and prove his father’s Arsene Lupin in The Hollow Needle. Paperback – January 20, 2021. Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman thief returns in this intricately plotted tale of disguises, loot, and love. Once more Lupin is at large, snatching fortunes from under the noses of the wealthy. But this time he may have met his match . . . and not in his usual nemeses, Inspector 918p.