Arsene Lupin

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 157412

Not so long ago there was a fast and furious thread about mystery 
novels, unreliable narrators and Agatha Christie---with a little 
Harry Potter tossed in. I've read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and 
now I'm reading Agatha Christie's autobiography. Great stuff!

Eons ago Agatha and her sister were discussing mystery novels and 
which tricks were fair and which weren't for an author to use and 
this was years before AC began writing----sort of brings me up, not 
only have we HP fans rehashed HP issues over and over, we've re-
hashed issues from days gone by. Oh well.

One of Agatha Christie's favorite mystery series concerned Arsene 
Lupin, a French series. From what I can tell, Arsene is nothing like 
Remus. Is anyone familiar with that series? Opinions? Everything I 
know I found at Google. 

I'm guessing at the very least JKR may have been familiar with the 
character, or do you think she plucked the name out of her garden?

Potioncat, who also found a Trelawney in AC's autobiography.