Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur

Aboard the liner Provence, bound for America, news comes in by wireless telegraph: Arsène Lupin is on board, and everyone wonders who he is.

Locked up in La Santé prison, Arsène Lupin writes to the wealthy Baron Cahorn to inform him that he is going to take the treasures from his château.

Arsène Lupin keeps telling everyone that he won't attend his own trial, and the police watch his every move to stop him from escaping.

On the express train from Paris to Rouen, a frightened lady confides to the narrator that Arsène Lupin may be travelling with them, and the man who has just entered their compartment does nothing to reassure her.

The morning after a ball, the Comtesse de Dreux-Soubise's famous necklace vanishes from a small room that no one could have entered, and the investigation finds no explanation.

One June night, a journalist finds a threatening letter and a strange playing card in his house in Neuilly, and soon finds himself caught up in an affair involving stolen plans, secret letters and a submarine.

One winter night, a young stranger rescues a wealthy Parisian who has been attacked on a deserted boulevard, and so gains entry into the Imbert household, whose safe is said to hold a hundred million.

One night, Arsène Lupin secretly enters the home of the Countess d’Andillot to steal her famous black pearl, but nothing goes the way he had planned.

At the Château de Thibermesnil, near Dieppe, the banker Georges Devanne is expecting the famous English detective Herlock Sholmès, and teases his friend, the painter Horace Velmont, who bears a striking resemblance to Arsène Lupin.