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He is handsome, charming, highly intelligent, and a master of ____. He ____, but only from the rich, and marries four times. He travels the world using a number of names and his adventures are the talk of ____. Who is this fascinating celebrity? He is Arsene Lupin, gentleman-criminal-____ and one of France’s best-known and best-loved literary figures.
Created by French writer Maurice Leblanc, Lupin first appeared in 1905 in the French magazine “Je Sais Tout” (I Know Everything). The magazine regularly contained stories ____ the criminal genius, and in 1907 published a collection called “Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar.”
The ____ thief’s exploits achieved a level of popularity to ____ that of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Indeed, Leblanc was himself a great fan of the fictional English detective, and wrote a Holmes-like detective named Herlock Sholmes into several of Lupin’s greatest adventures.
Maurice Leblanc was born in ____ France in 1864. His wealthy father, the owner of a successful ____ firm, sent Maurice to be educated in France, Germany and Italy. Leblanc spent some time working for his father, and later began studying ____. However, he gave it all up to become a writer.
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答案disguise
steals
Paris
turned-detective
featuring
daring
match
northern
shipping
law
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