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Maurice Marie Emile Leblanc (1864 -1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Leblanc was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his services to literature.
A boy detective takes on the most brilliant thief in Europe, in the classic series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. In a country manor, a terrible noise awakes the household. Downstairs, the estate’s secretary has been murdered. There are signs of a break-in, but everything appears to be in its proper place. What kind of thief would commit murder to steal nothing? The first detective on the case is Isidore Beautrelet, a precocious teenager who wears a fake beard to disguise the fact that he has not yet graduated from high school. Although the other investigators do not take him seriously, Beautrelet is the one to pick up the trail of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. Lupin, it is soon discovered, is chasing the most valuable object he has ever had the opportunity to steal: the Hollow Needle. Passed down for generations by the kings of France, it holds a secret that could undo the republic. No one has ever managed to foil one of Lupin’s fiendish plans, but Beautrelet is counting on beginner’s luck. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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A boy detective takes on the most brilliant thief in Europe. In a country manor, a terrible noise awakes the household. Downstairs, the estate's secretary has been murdered. There are signs of a break-in, but everything appears to be in its proper place. What kind of thief would commit murder to steal nothing? The first detective on the case is Isidore Beautrelet, a precocious teenager who wears a fake beard to disguise the fact that he has not yet graduated from high school. Although the other investigators do not take him seriously, Beautrelet is the one to pick up the trail of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. Lupin, it is soon discovered, is chasing the most valuable object he has ever had the opportunity to steal: the Hollow Needle. Passed down for generations by the kings of France, it holds a secret that could undo the republic. No one has ever managed to foil one of Lupin's fiendish plans, but Beautrelet is counting on beginner's luck.
Author : Maurice Leblanc Publisher : Copp, Clark Company Page : 354 pages File Size : 42,3 MB Release : 1910 Category : Detective and mystery stories, French ISBN :
The secret of the Hollow Needle was revealed to Arsène Lupin by Josephine Balsamo. This is the location of a fabulous trove, the fortunes of the kings of France. It was last used by Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro. When a youth, Isidore Beautrelet, discovers the Château de l'Aiguille in the department of Creuse, he thinks he has discovered the location of the French treasure. But that château was built by Louis XIV to distract hunters from the true needle which is in Normandy, near Le Havre, and where Arsène Lupin is in hiding, using his alias, Louis Valmeras.
The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc Arsène Lupine this time is opposed by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is ready to give Arsène Lupine a big headache. In the Arsène Lupine universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the kings of France, as revealed to Arsène Lupine by Josephine Balsamo in the novel La contessa di Cagliostro (1924). The mystery of the hollow needle hides a secret that the kings of France have handed down from the time of Julius Caesar ... and now Arsène Lupine has mastered it. The legendary needle contains the most fabulous treasure ever imagined, a collection of dowry queens, pearls, rubies, sapphires and diamonds ... the fortune of the kings of France. When Isidore Beautrelet discovers the Aiguille castle in the Creuse department, he thinks he has found the solution to the riddle ("l'Aiguille Creuse" in French means "The Hollow Needle", and also the French title of the novel). However, he did not realize that the castle was built by Louis XIV, the King of France, to keep people away from the traces of a needle in Normandy, near the city of Le Havre, where Arsène Lupine, also known as Louis Valméras, he hid.
Raymonde listened. The noise was repeated twice over, clearly enough to be distinguished from the medley of vague sounds that formed the great silence of the night and yet too faintly to enable her to tell whether it was near or far, within the walls of the big country-house, or outside, among the murky recesses of the park. She rose softly. Her window was half open: she flung it back wide. The moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which the straggling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic outlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses. A light breeze hovered over the face of things, gliding noiselessly through the bare motionless branches of the trees, but shaking the tiny budding leaves of the shrubs. And, suddenly, she heard the same sound again. It was on the left and on the floor below her, in the living rooms, therefore, that occupied the left wing of the house. Brave and plucky though she was, the girl felt afraid. She slipped on her dressing gown and took the matches. "Raymonde-Raymonde!" A voice as low as a breath was calling to her from the next room, the door of which had not been closed. She was feeling her way there, when Suzanne, her cousin, came out of the room and fell into her arms: "Raymonde-is that you? Did you hear-?" - Taken from "The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin" written by Maurice Leblanc
Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman thief returns in this intricately plotted tale of disguises, loot, and love. Once more Lupin is at large, snatching fortunes from under the noses of the wealthy. But this time he may have met his match . . . and not in his usual nemeses, Inspector Ganimard or Holmlock Shears, but in a bright school student who manages to penetrate his secrets -- and reaches his treasure-trove! But the greatest danger may be the woman with whom Lupin has fallen in love, for she has made him promise to give up his life of crime forever!