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| | Arsène Lupin |
 | | There were twenty volumes in the Lupin series written by Leblanc, and five sequels written by the notorious mystery writing team of |
 | | Although he was on the other side of the law, he was clearly a force for good, and those he defeated, always with characteristic gallic style and panache, were worse villains than he. |
 | | Indeed, the two characters were bound to meet and, in an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes himself appeared several times in the Lupin novels, first as himself, then in the transparent guise of "Herlock Sholmes," after some legal objections from Conan Doyle. |
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