An intrigue rich in unexpected developments set in the extravagant Belle Epoque. This is Ars ne Lupin at his finest, as crafty and cunning as ever
1908 - Ars ne Lupin has begun therapy to cure his addiction to burglary but he is forced to find an honest means to pay for the sessions that he hope will be successful. In that goal, he opens a detective agency, the Barnett Agency.
His first client is the very wealthy Madame Bovaroff who claims that someone has stolen a priceless self-portrait by Delacroix entitled L'Homme au gilet vert. Yet suddenly the painting magically reappears back on the same wall from which it disappeared. Not only that but all those who held the painting in their hands are murdered, one after the other.
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