Publisher's Synopsis
Minutes after M. Gerbois, an unassuming professor of mathematics, purchases a small mahogany writing-desk for his daughter, he is swiftly approached by a young man offering him three times the price for it. Impatiently, he refuses. That evening, the desk is stolen - and, with it, the winning ticket for the latest Press-Association Lottery, worth one million francs! So begins an adventure which will see Arsene Lupin engaged in a battle of wits with his nemesis - the famed English detective Holmlock Shears...
