The inspiration behind the smash hit Netflix original series Lupin!

"Not for a second did Patrice believe that she meant to pick up that dagger with any other thought than to stab her husband. The intention of murder was so plainly written on her livid features that, even before she stirred a limb, Essarès was seized with a fit of terror and strained every muscle to break the bonds that hampered his movements."

Wounded soldier Captain Patrice Belval stops a kidnapping attempt of Maman Coralie, a nurse who cared for him after he lost his right leg. When Coralie's husband is brutally murdered, Patrice discovers a conspiracy to steal millions of francs' worth of gold from the French. In the midst of the First World War, the two young people find themselves becoming more and more tangled in the threads of the mystery. Only one man is clever enough to uncover the truth—but how can he solve the crime when he's supposed to be dead?

Maurice Leblanc's gentleman-thief makes his triumphant return in The Golden Triangle (also known as The Return of Arsène Lupin), published in 1917.

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