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LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you
would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming,
brilliant, sly . . . and possibly the greatest thief in the world.
In this classic tale, Lupin plans -- and pulls off -- the theft of
priceless paintings for his own private collection. His brilliant
effrontery in the face of the police dares them to catch him . . .
with spectacular results!
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now
remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us
recall the details in a few lines.
One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a
series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of
Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter V ronique, when
he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a
walking-stick which felled him to the ground.
After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, V
ronique, the beautiful V ronique, as she was called by her friends,
was dragged away and bundled into a motor-car which the spectators
of this very brief scene saw making off in the direction of
Saint-Cloud.
It was a plain case of kidnapping. The truth became known next
morning. Count Alexis Vorski, a young Polish nobleman of dubious
reputation but of some social prominence and, by his own account,
of royal blood, was in love with V ronique d'Hergemont and V
ronique with him. Repelled and more than once insulted by the
father, he had planned the incident entirely without V ronique's
knowledge or complicity.
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