Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. In this first of twenty volumes about the French detective, Lupin actually meets the famous Sherlock Holmes. They also met in second volume, but at this point legal problems ended their fictitious meetings. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (Maurice Leblanc)