The Island of Thirty Coffins

The Island of Thirty Coffins (L’Île aux trente cercueils) is a 1919 novel by Maurice Leblanc featuring his gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. 

Television adaptation
A 1979 television series adaptation of Maurice Leblanc's novel was directed by Marcel Cravenne.  It stars Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her son, involved in horrible adventures on a terrific island.  The story proceeds in 1917.  Veronique d' Hergemont (Claude Jade) is a 35-year-old nurse at the military hospital of Besançon.  She suddenly learns of the assassination of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski (Jean-Paul Zehnacker), whom she has not seen for fourteen years.  Her research will also lead her on the track of her father and her son whom she believed dead in a shipwreck years earlier. 

Cast
Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont
Jean-Paul Zehnacker as Alexis Vorski
Georges Marchal as Antoine d'Hergemont
Pascal Sellier as François d'Hergemont
Yves Beneyton as Philippe Maroux

External links

Category:French crime novels
Category:Arsène Lupin novels
Category:1919 French novels
Island of Thirty Coffins, The
Category:Television programs based on French novels

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