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A famed thief and a precocious schoolboy engage in a tense cat-and-mouse duel after a violent nighttime theft reveals a convoluted trail of clues leading to a secret repository of royal riches hidden in a coastal rock formation. The plot interleaves dramatic rescues, deadly encounters, coded documents and historical puzzles as the amateur sleuth pieces together a centuries-old secret while the thief deploys disguise and misdirection. The narrative emphasizes ingenuity, rivalry, and the pleasure of unraveling layered mysteries.

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Title: The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsène Lupin

Author: Maurice Leblanc

Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Release date: May 1, 2003 [eBook #4017]
Most recently updated: July 18, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Charles Franks, Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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The Hollow Needle

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ARSÈNE LUPIN

by Maurice Leblanc

AUTHOR OF
“ARSÈNE LUPIN,” “THE BLONDE LADY,” ETC.

TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS


Contents

Chapter I. The Shot
Chapter II. Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy
Chapter III. The Corpse
Chapter IV. Face to Face
Chapter V. On the Track
Chapter VI. An Historic Secret
Chapter VII. The Treatise of the Needle
Chapter VIII. From Cæsar to Lupin
Chapter IX. Open, Sesame!
Chapter X. The Treasures of the Kings of France

ILLUSTRATIONS

Valméras loved Raymonde’s melancholy charm

She put the gun to her shoulder, calmly took aim and fired

Two huge letters, each perhaps a foot long, appeared cut in relief in the granite of the floor

“We’re going now. What do you think of my cockle-shell, Beautrelet?”