Questions tagged [maurice-leblanc]
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (1864-1941) is a French novelist and short story writer, famous for his character Arsene Lupin. Use this tag if a question involves him or any of his works. If this question is related to one of his works originally written in French, use the tag [french-language], along with either a tag for a specific longer work or the tag [short-stories].
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What does "men of straw" refer to in this passage from an Arsène Lupin story?
The story in question is "Le coffre-fort de madame Imbert" or in English "Madame Imbert's Safe". The passage reads, in the translation I've got:
For six months, I have worked on ...
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How did they happen to find the cipher in "The Hollow Needle"?
In The Hollow Needle (1909) by Maurice Leblanc, did M. Brédoux just "drop" the paper with the Hollow Needle cipher?
Maybe I missed something in the book, but the way the good guys and ...
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