In wartime Paris, Captain Patrice Belval, who has lost a leg at the front, and his Senegalese comrade save the nurse he calls Little Mother Coralie from kidnappers. The trail leads to her husband, the banker Essarès Bey, a fortune in French gold being smuggled out of the country and a deadly locked room, until Arsène Lupin, under another name, takes the case in hand.
A tense, inventive Lupin adventure from 1917, full of Leblanc’s love of puzzles and patriotism. Download the free EPUB.