Title: L'île aux trente cercueils
Description: <p>While watching a film, Véronique d’Hergemont spots her childhood signature mysteriously written on the side of a hut in the background of a scene. Her visit to the location of the film shoot deepens the mystery, but also provides further clues that point her towards long-lost relations and a great secret from ancient history: a secret that will require the services of a particular man to unravel.</p>
			<p><i>The Secret of Sarek</i> was published in the original French in 1919, and in this English translation in 1920. It was <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/maurice-leblanc">Maurice Leblanc’s</a> first <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin">Arsène Lupin</a> novel written after the Great War, and its impact on Leblanc is palpable: the novel has a much darker tone than earlier works, and even the famous cheery charm of Lupin is diluted. The result is a classic horror story, bringing a new dimension to the series.</p>
Subjects: Arsène Lupin (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Kidnapping -- Fiction, Lupin, Arsène (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, French -- Translations into English, Families -- Fiction, Brittany (France) -- Fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Romance literature