Arsen Lypen

Rabotaya ponachalu reporterom v Figaro , vypustil neskol'ko sbornikov novell, no osobogo uspekha ne sniskal. Literaturnym krestnym ottsom Leblana stal vliyatel'nyy parizhskiy izdatel' P'yer Lafit. On predlozhil yemu pridumat' geroya, kotoryy mog by sopernichat' po populyarnosti s Sherlokom Kholmsom. I Leblan sozdal Arsena Lypena - obraz-mif, v kotorom frantsuzam priyatno bylo uznavat' sebya: sil'nyy i smelyy geroy, khitryy, pronitsatel'nyy i, samoye glavnoye, ostroumnyy: on pobezhdayet svoikh vragov, vysmeivaya ikh. Pomimo pyati sbornikov rasskazov, pyatnadtsati romanov i trekh p'yes ob Arsene Lypene, Moris Leblan napisal takzhe dva desyatka priklyuchencheskikh, nauchno-fantasticheskikh, lyubovnykh romanov i mnozhestvo rasskazov.