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The Hollow Needle

First published: 1909
Pages: 183

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The Shot
43:00
Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy
53:52
The Corpse
39:48
Face to Face
49:53
On the Track
31:08
An Historic Secret
33:48
The Treatise of the Needle
47:11
From Caesar to Lupin
31:57
Open, Sesame!
40:47
The Treasures of the Kings of France
47:29

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When a young detective sets out to expose Arsene Lupin, the chase leads to one of France's oldest secrets. Isidore Beautrelet, a brilliant schoolboy with a gift for deduction, follows a trail of ciphers and clues toward the meaning of the Hollow Needle, a mystery said to have guarded the treasure of French kings since the days of Julius Caesar. Maurice Leblanc turns his usual formula on its head, letting Lupin play the hunted for once as his sharp-witted rival closes in. Serialized in 1908 and 1909, the novel wraps the real cliffs of Etretat around its puzzle and stands among Leblanc's most admired books. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, it is free here as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Maurice Leblanc

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, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.