In the Arsène Lupin universe, the Hollow Needle is the second secret of Marie Antoinette and Alessandro Cagliostro, the hidden fortune of the kings of France, as revealed to Arsène Lupin by Josephine Balsamo in the novel The Countess of Cagliostro (1924). The rest of the story is a tale of international espionage targeting the old 'Book of Montcalmet' where friends are not always friends, but the hero will triumph with panache.Arsène Lupin is opposed this time by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to give Arsène Lupin a big headache. With the help of brother and sister, Joséphin Maria Theresa that he protects his beloved from danger. This company is dedicated to him and he is familiarly called Captain Kakariko, alluding to his rallying cry. He turns into an instructor for the wayward child (Fourvier).

Lupin is an old thief who does not hide his true identity from Fourvier. The police and Fourvier rush to the 'zone' to investigate, but Lupin finds the bags before anyone else. The bags mysteriously landed near the Julainville in the 'zone' between Gennevilliers and Pantin and then disappeared. Newspapers report the disappearance of Lema's fortune: four million pounds of gold sent by the Bank of England to the Bank of France in two bags. Thereafter, Cora soon learns from Lord Hairfall that her biological father is Lord Harrington, a close relative of the English Royal Family. Unexpectedly the Prince of Lerna commits suicide. The faithful Captain Andrew Savery is presented to her by Count Hairfall, and he loves her from afar.

Finally, to complete the genealogy of the hero Cabot, Lupin finally married Countess Montcalmet.Ĭora, a blonde-haired, green-eyed woman appears. In a prologue we learn that Lupin's great-grandfather was one of Napoleon's generals, for whom he will successfully complete a singular mission: to bring the English version of the journal that contains the family Montcalmet revelations of Joan of Arc on the 'high directives of English politics,' absent from the French version. He started to correct it at the beginning of the following year, in 'a very shaky hand'. According to him, Leblanc had worked on it in September 1936, shortly before a stroke. A preface was written by Jacques Derouard. According to the deceased's wishes, the story was transcribed without corrections from a 160-page typescript. This work, begun under the title 'The Last Adventure of Arsène Lupin', was found by chance in 2011 'on top of a cupboard in a beige shirt with rusty hooks' by Florence Boespflug-Leblanc.Ī foreword was written by Florence Leblanc.

The Last Love of Arsène Lupin is a posthumous novel written by Maurice Leblanc, rehearsing the later years of his frequent hero, Arsène Lupin.

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