# M. Weber — 813 character guide

> M. Weber in 813 by Maurice Leblanc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Weber, L. M.

**First appearance:** 0004-iii-m-lenormand-opens-his-campaign

## Snapshot

The hapless inspector whom Lupin publicly sacks in a letter to the newspapers, then impersonates with unnerving ease in the fashionable restaurants of Paris.

## Who they are

Weber is the detective-service functionary whose identity Lupin borrows after dismissing him in a mocking open letter signed with his own name. His professional humiliation becomes one of the novel's slyest running jokes: the man whose post Lupin resumes is never quite present to defend it. He matters because his erasure is the first proof that Lupin can wear the police like a suit, and that the Kesselbach case will be fought with disguises as much as clues.

## Relationships

### [Arsène Lupin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/characters/arsene_lupin)

_rivalry_

Weber is a police official who relentlessly pursues Lupin, creating a professional and personal enmity.

### [Arsène Lupin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/characters/arsene_lupin)

_rivalry_

Weber is a police official who relentlessly pursues Lupin, creating a professional and personal enmity.

## In the story

### [V: M. Lenormand at Work](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/v-m-lenormand-at-work)

Deputy-chief of the detective-service; mentioned as a personal enemy of Lenormand who is handling the case in Lenormand's absence.

### [VII: Parbury-Ribeira-Altenheim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/vii-parbury-ribeira-altenheim)

Receives an anonymous letter revealing that Prince Sernine is Arsène Lupin, and plans to take two hundred men to arrest him.

### [VIII: The Olive-Green Frock-Coat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/viii-the-olive-green-frock-coat)

Deputy-chief who discovers the frock-coat and extracts the confession from Altenheim; arrests Lupin.

### [Santé Palace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/ix-sant-palace)

Deputy chief who personally escorts Lupin to the Palais de Justice with a heavily armed guard. Lupin taunts him about becoming chief detective.

### [XI: Charlemagne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/xi-charlemagne)

Accompanies Lupin during the staged escape from Santé Prison, driving him to the underground passage at Garches.

### [The Man in Black](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/813_se/chapters/xiv-the-man-in-black)

Arrives at Malreich's villa after Lupin's capture.

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