Netflix show ‘Lupin’ shines new light on French crime fiction hero
By AFP
23 January 2021 |
8:26 am
The success of the "Lupin" series on Netflix is reviving public interest in Maurice Leblanc's novels about the gentleman burglar. "The book that we see very regularly in the hands of Omar Sy and his son in the series is already out of print," says the manager of a bookshop on the outskirts of Paris.
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