The inspiration behind the smash hit Netflix original series Lupin!

"Nevertheless, they made a discovery which was destined to give the case no little celebrity and which had a terrible influence on the fate of Gilbert and Vaucheray: in one of the pockets was a visiting-card which the fugitive had left behind... the card of Arsène Lupin."

While carrying out a run-of-the-mill robbery, things suddenly go wrong for Arsène Lupin and his crew. Two of his men are found guilty of murder and sentenced to the guillotine—but only one man committed the crime. Lupin must race against time, and a powerful new enemy who seems to always be two steps ahead, to save an innocent man from a grisly death.

Inspired by the events of the Panama Canal scandal in the late 1890s, with a literary nod to Edgar Allan Poe, The Crystal Stopper raises the stakes for France's famous gentleman-thief, with a young man's life hanging in the balance. Maurice Leblanc's fifth volume of Arsène Lupin adventures was published in 1912.

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