The inspiration behind the smash hit Netflix original series Lupin!

"Three shots more, Lord of the Cape! I shan't be satisfied till you've lodged six bullets in my carcass. What! You give up? That's a pity . . . you were making excellent practice!"

A prominent South African diamond dealer is murdered, his safe deposit box cleaned out. When Arsène Lupin's card is found beside the body, the police move swiftly and throw the famed thief in prison. There's only one problem—Lupin was not the murderer! Ridiculed in the news, and now isolated in his cell, how will he be able to prove his innocence? With a formidable, invisible enemy on his tail, this may be the end of Arsène Lupin.

Maurice Leblanc's 813 is a gritty crime novel, more complex and disturbing than his previous works featuring the gentleman-thief. Originally published in 1910, it was re-edited in 1917 into two volumes—The Double Life of Arsène Lupin and The Three Crimes of Arsène Lupin.

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