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813

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First published: 1910
Pages: 378

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01 - The Tragedy at the Palace Hotel
39:12
02 - The Blue-Edged Label
32:09
03 - M. Lenormand Opens His Campaign
27:49
04 - Prince Sernine at Work
56:33
05 - M. Lenormand at Work
31:34
06 - M. Lenormand Succumbs
35:01
07 - Parbury-Ribeira-Altenheim
39:51
08 - The Olive-Green Frock-Coat
38:04
09 - “Santé Palace”
48:32
10 - Lupin's Great Scheme
24:04
11 - Charlemagne
26:10
12 - The Emperor's Letters
47:23
13 - The Seven Scoundrels
38:40
14 - The Man in Black
37:29
15 - The Map of Europe
38:49
16 - Arsène Lupin's Three Murders
44:33
17 - Epilogue. The Suicide
13:35

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About this book

Leblanc published 813 in 1910, and the title comes from a mysterious number that turns up next to a corpse on the first night of the case. The setup is classic Lupin. A wealthy diamond magnate is killed in a Paris hotel. Lupin is the obvious suspect and gets arrested, but then everything turns: he ends up working with the police, then running them, then disappearing into a new identity as Monsieur Lenormand, the head of the Sûreté itself. Yes, the most famous thief in France quietly takes over the French criminal investigation department, and nobody figures it out for half the book. The plot threads its way through forged identities, German imperial agents, family secrets, and a German emperor cameo. Leblanc was thinking big with this one. It runs almost twice the length of his earlier Lupin novels and reads more like a thriller than the tight short-story Lupin most readers know. Critics often pick 813 as his masterpiece. If you have read a couple of Lupin shorts and want the version that takes itself seriously, this is the book.

About the author

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.