DETAILS
author: Maurice LeBlanc
published: 1910
language: English
word count: 107,897 / 316 pg
genres: Pulp, Mystery/Detective, Thriller
OVERVIEW
When one of Arséne Lupin' victims is found dead in a way that implicates the wily criminal, he insists on heading the police search for the real murderer. The mystery involves finding a package of letters once written to Bismarck, locating a clock on which the number 813 has significance, as well as causing a reigning emperor to make several journeys incognito. Murders by the dozens, suicide and mild forms of torture are warp and woof of the plot.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin