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The Crystal Stopper

Maurice Leblanc

The Crystal Stopper — Arsène Lupin’s attempted robbery of the member of parliament Daubrecq has gone horribly wrong, leaving one man dead and two of Lupin’s accomplices in police custody. Now he finds himself pulled into an ever more conspiratorial spiral as he attempts to gain leverage over the people who can free his men. Set before the events of the preceding 813, this again portrays Lupin in a much different light to the earlier books. Lupin at times comes close to despair as he grapples with his own moral principles and tries to do the best for those closest to him. The story was serialized in Le Journal in 1912 and published as a French novel that same year. This English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos appeared in 1913.

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