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The Golden Triangle

With Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Captain Belval, learning of a threat to his beloved nurse Little Mother Coralie, rescues her from her would-be assailants and is promptly dragged into a plot involving her husband and millions of francs worth of gold. As layer upon layer of conspiracy emerges with no obvious thread to follow, there’s only one man who can be counted on to uncover the truth.

First published
1918
Length
88,025 words
Reading time
About 6 hr 7 min
Language
English (US)

About the book

Captain Belval, learning of a threat to his beloved nurse Little Mother Coralie, rescues her from her would-be assailants and is promptly dragged into a plot involving her husband and millions of francs worth of gold. As layer upon layer of conspiracy emerges with no obvious thread to follow, there’s only one man who can be counted on to uncover the truth.

The Golden Triangle (also known as The Return of Arsène Lupin ) was published in 1917 in both the original French and this English translation. It is set a couple of years after the events of The Teeth of the Tiger , and is representative of its time with themes of convalescent soldiers and continent-wide plots.

First published 1918; the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 88,025 words arranged in 20 navigable sections.

The source metadata identifies Annotator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos; Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

About the author

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) was a French writer.

Their work included writer, novelist, and journalist. Maurice Leblanc also worked in French. The Read4Max catalog currently includes Memoirs of Arsène Lupin, The Golden Triangle, and The Secret of Sarek under Maurice Leblanc's authorship.

Contributors

Annotator

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Translator

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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Themes and ideas

  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Burglars
  • Lupin, Arsène (Fictitious character)

Table of contents

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  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. X
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. XIX
  20. Endnotes