The Crystal Stopper
The gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin matches wits with police and rivals over a mysterious crystal stopper that holds the key to a deadly secret, in a fast, twisting adventure of theft, blackmail, and hairbreadth escapes. Leblanc weaves an ingenious plot full of the disguises, daring, and charm that made Lupin France’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. Suspenseful and witty, The Crystal Stopper is one of the finest Lupin novels, driven by clever reversals and a race against time. Elegant and thrilling, it offers pure entertainment as the audacious master-thief outwits everyone around him in pursuit of a hidden truth and, as ever, justice on his own terms.
About the Author
Maurice Leblanc was born in 1864 in Rouen, France, and spent most of his early career writing the kind of literary realism his peers wrote: serious novels about provincial unhappiness, unread by anybody outside his immediate circle. Then in 1905 a magazine editor asked him…
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