He does so in “The Safe of Madam Imbert,” revealing that the events from that story happen before Lupin comes to fame. It’s often difficult to tell what is happening when, unless Leblanc makes it explicit. The result isn’t exactly cohesive since the stories-especially those seen later in the book-are chronologically jumbled. The stories are haphazardly plopped into the collection in the order that they were originally published-we are taken from a ship on the Atlantic, to a prison in Paris, to the city Rouen, and back to Paris.
As the title suggests, every chapter covers a new Lupin exploit. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin is a collection of stories that Maurice Leblanc published between 19 in the French magazine Je Sais Tout. While waiting for Part II of the series to be released, I decided to dig into the stories that the show pays homage to. It’s a perfect foil to the detective thrillers that crowd TV, displaying an overtly criminal character on a quest for good. Diop uses the tactics of disguise and thievery displayed by Lupin to gather evidence through blackmail, espionage, and negotiation in an effort to exonerate his father. But Diop is the son of a Senegalese immigrant falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
Diop models himself off the book’s protagonist, an incredibly talented burglar with the sensible charm and elegance of a French aristocrat. The main character of the show, Assane Diop, carries a heavily stickied copy of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar. Still, Lupin didn’t enter the main stage here in the USA until the eponymous Netflix show began making waves. It was a big hit when it arrived in print in the early twentieth century and has since inspired multiple spinoffs in the form of comics, television shows, and movies across the world. Arséne Lupin, Gentleman Burglarhas been well known throughout Europe for quite some time.
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