Maurice Leblanc, The Hollow Needle, New York, Doubleday Page & Co. The process of adaptation across mediums always invites change, and so I thought I'd share some of how I went about that process and what I learned while doing it. Donohue & Co, 1910 (Translated from the French As both a fan of Arsne Lupin and an amateur playwright, I recently finished adapting 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsne Lupin' to audio drama.

Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes , Chicago, M. Richard Boehm, translation by Edgar Jepson. Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, October 1909, illustration by H. Similarly, it took only a few months for the 1909 novelization of Leblanc and Francis de Croisset’s eponymous play to be published in New York, in October 1909. From then on, a succession of books by Le Blanc (sic) featuring Lupin took hold of the American market. The collection includes nine stories dealing with various complicated plots in which Lupin proves himself to be the consummate escape artist. The Exploits of Arsene Lupin were published in the same year in both France and in America (1907), the latter in a translation by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (New York, Harper, 1907). First serialized in the French magazine Je Sais Tout in 1905, the Arsene Lupin stories soon caught the public imagination on both sides of the Channel.

While this particular journey was thwarted by Lupin’s arrest, the books themselves fared better and Lupin’s adventures were soon translated into English, rapidly making their way across the Atlantic.

Arsène Lupin is introduced as he finds himself in the midst of a transatlantic journey, “five hundred miles from the French coast”. One of the most successful characters of French crime fiction worldwide, Arsène Lupin, was introduced to French readers in the July 1905 issue of the magazine Je sais tout. The story “ L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin,” is somewhat paradoxically titled, considering that, far from stopping Lupin in his tracks, it became the first in a series comprising a total of 36 short stories and 19 novels. Maurice Leblanc, The Blonde Lady, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company (1928)

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