The Island of Thirty Coffins

The Island of Thirty Coffins
Author Maurice Leblanc
Language French
Genre Detective novel
Publication date
1919
Media type Print

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

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