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The Secret of Sarek

First published: 1919
Pages: 245

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Maurice Leblanc set this eerie adventure on a fog-bound Breton island where an old prophecy speaks of thirty coffins and thirty victims. Veronique d'Hergemont, who has believed her son dead for years, glimpses her own childhood signature in the background of a film and follows the trail to the island of Sarek. There she walks into a nightmare of slain families, sealed crypts, and a hidden power that seems to be fulfilling the ancient warning. Part detective puzzle, part gothic horror, the story turns Leblanc's usual light touch toward genuine dread before Arsene Lupin steps in to strip the mystery of its supposed magic. First published in French in 1919 as L'Ile aux trente cercueils, it remains one of his strangest and darkest tales. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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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.