The genesis of Lupin is the first news of this collection: "The arrest of Arsene Lupin." On the occasion of the launch of the magazine "I know everything," Maurice Leblanc executes a command, to write a new one for this magazine. He created the character of Arsene Lupin. Success will be present and Leblanc was forced to continue writing to each issue of "I know everything", an episode of Lupin. These are the news that will make the first volume of the adventures of the gentleman thief. It was not until "The hollow needle" to read a real novel where the character begins to settle. But Leblanc will quickly want to kill Lupin and 813, it suicide, then forced to resurrect it because Lupin has taken over its creator. This collection thus begins the adventures of Arsene Lupin where we will learn some things about his childhood in "Queen's necklace" but also understand the psychology of the character. Some news is more or less interesting and have been more or less suitable soap operas closely with Chief Inspector Ganimard turned into Guerchard Commissioner and other details that transformed the work into a series of Leblanc nearest comedy as polar.
