L'Aiguille creuse

Name: L'Aiguille creuse
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ISBN: 9782824905853

Maurice Leblanc, Catherine Clément

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Un étrange cambriolage est commis au château du comte de Gesvre, à Ambrumésy. Raymonde de Saint-Véran, nièce du propriétaire, surprend le voleur et tire sur lui pendant sa fuite. L'homme disparaît. Apparemment rien n'a été volé. Un jeune et brillant étudiant en rhétorique, Isidore Beautrelet, pense que le mystérieux voleur est sans doute Arsène Lupin. À la grande satisfaction de la police française, le cadavre du célèbre gentleman cambrioleur est justement retrouvé quelques jours plus tard. Refusant de croire à cette histoire et se faisant passer pour un journaliste, le jeune lycéen décide de mener l'enquête, en partie fondée sur le déchiffrage d'un texte codé. Mais l'inspecteur Ganimard et le fameux détective anglais Herlock Sholmès ne sont pas loin. Malgré les fausses pistes qui se multiplient, l'investigation se poursuit au Pays de Caux et ailleurs. Une énigme historique traversant toute l'histoire de France, de Jules César à la reine Marie-Antoinette, se révèle bientôt au grand jour. Arsène Lupin, connu aussi sous le nom de Louis Valméras, aurait découvert le secret du fabuleux trésor des rois de France, caché au coeur de l'Aiguille creuse d'Etretat. Riche en rebondissements et péripéties de toutes sortes, intrigant à souhait, à la croisée des genres entre récit policier, récit historique et récit d'aventures, "L'Aiguille creuse" est l'un des romans les plus populaires de Maurice Leblanc.

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; French: ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief. By 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more "respectable" literary ambitions, Leblanc also appeared to have resented Lupin's success. Several times he tried to create other characters, such as private eye Jim Barnett, but he eventually merged them with Lupin. He continued to pen Lupin tales well into the 1930s. Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians, and Le Formidable Evènement (1920), in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between England and France. Leblanc was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for his services to literature, and died in Perpignan in 1941. He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Georgette Leblanc was his sister.