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In a Paris of fortunes and sudden death, who stands to gain—and who can outwit Arsène Lupin?
Arsène Lupin knows how to outwit the police with charm and nerve. Now Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman burglar becomes an investigator, facing a hidden enemy in a case driven by inheritance. Money and family claims sit at its heart, along with a dangerous question: who gains when someone dies?
The Teeth of the Tiger draws you through a long chain of clues, with new facts arriving just when earlier ones seem settled. Lupin often appears to know more than anyone else in the room. Yet sharp questions and sudden surprises keep the mystery moving and its secrets out of reach.
What you’ll discover
- A thief turns investigator Follow Lupin as he brings a gentleman burglar’s charm and nerve to the search for answers.
- Money at the heart Explore a mystery where fortunes and family claims make the question of inheritance dangerous.
- An enemy kept hidden Join the hunt for clues as Lupin faces an opponent who stays out of sight.
- Certainty never lasts long Watch new facts unsettle what seems clear, keeping you alert to the next sharp question.
- Speed sharpened by wit Enjoy short scenes and brisk dialogue, with surprises waiting just where you might relax.
Who will love it
Readers who love locked rooms and poisoned clues, fans of gentleman rogues and quick wit, and anyone who enjoys a daring hero, a hidden enemy, and a love story inside the chase.
What’s inside
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- A warning arrives without its words
- An inheritance makes protection look suspicious
- A familiar name reveals the hunter
- The guarded house offers no safety
- A matching bite threatens Marie
- Danger reaches inside Perenna's home
- A hunter pauses to hear another story
- Trust must live beside uncertainty
- Appearances keep turning against the innocent
Who’s who
- Don Luis PerennaA Foreign Legion hero who is really Arsène Lupin, he wants to find Cosmo Mornington's heirs and avenge his murdered friend.
- Sergeant MazerouxA mournful, honest detective who owes his career to Lupin and struggles between devotion to his old chief and duty to the law.
- M. DesmalionsThe Prefect of Police, shrewd and fair, who trusts Perenna's skill while he doubts his motives and his past.
- Hippolyte FauvilleA dying civil engineer who stages his terror while secretly planning his own death and his son's to implicate his wife.
- Marie FauvilleHis young wife, a Roussel heir, who cannot explain where she was on the fatal night and swears she is innocent.
- Gaston SauverandA scholar and cousin of the Fauvilles who carries an ebony stick, hides his true name, and wants only to save the woman he loves.
- Florence LevasseurPerenna's calm, golden-haired secretary, whose past is hidden and whose every act seems both suspicious and kind.
- WeberThe deputy chief of detectives, a stubborn enemy of Lupin who longs to see him in handcuffs.
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The Teeth of the Tiger
by Maurice Leblanc · 1914
A poisoned inspector and a bitten apple draw Arsène Lupin back from the dead to catch a killer.
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“The teeth of the tiger! The teeth of the wild beast!”
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Would you rather be a hero or a suspect? Don Luis Perenna is both.
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- About 8 h6 h 20 min fast, 9 h 35 min slow
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- 114,500 words
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1914by Maurice Leblanc
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A dying inspector leaves a blank page
At half past four in the Prefect's office, Inspector Vérot stumbles in, gray and soaked in sweat. He tells the private secretary that two murders are planned for tonight. He leaves a letter and a small box on the table, and walks out, saying he feels strangely ill.
A minute later he comes back, but the poison is working fast. He cannot see, and he takes the wrong turn behind a screen into the dressing closet. There he gasps that the job is set for tonight, and mutters about teeth closing on him until his voice fails.
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Leblanc, Maurice. The Teeth of the Tiger. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-teeth-of-the-tiger.
Leblanc, M. (2026). The teeth of the tiger. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-teeth-of-the-tiger (Original work published 1914)
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What is The Teeth of the Tiger about?
It follows Don Luis Perenna, secretly Arsène Lupin, as he investigates the poisoning of a rich American and the deaths of his heirs, while a hundred million francs and a set of tooth marks lead the police astray.
Who is Arsène Lupin in this book?
Lupin is the gentleman burglar who was officially declared dead. He returns as Don Luis Perenna, a decorated Foreign Legion soldier, and helps the Paris police on the case while hiding his past.
What do the teeth of the tiger mean?
The phrase names the strange tooth marks left in a bar of chocolate and in an apple at the crime scenes. The newspapers pick it up as a headline, and it becomes the label for the whole mystery.
The author
Maurice Leblanc
1864–1941 · French mystery novelist
Maurice Leblanc was a French writer born in Rouen in 1864. He wrote novels and short stories, including the Arsène Lupin series, which began in 1905. His books include The Hollow Needle, published in 1909, and The Crystal Stopper, published in 1912. He died in Perpignan in 1941.
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