The Secret of Sarek Maurice Leblanc - The Secret of Sarek (also known as The Island of Thirty Coffins) is a french novel by Maurice Leblanc published in 1919. The action begins in France in 1917. The heroine of the story is V├йronique d'Hergemont. Fourteen years ago, in 1903, her father, Professor Antoine d'Hergemont, had kidnapped her baby as revenge for her marriage to Count Vorski. While watching a film, V├йronique spots her childhood signature "V d'H" mysteriously written on the side of a hut in the background of a scene. She visits the island of Sarek, where an ancient prophecy comes true: "Four women on the cross, stone of God that gives life or death. Thirty sacrifices for thirty coffins."Get other Ars├иne Lupin books in the SeaWolf Press Ars├иne Lupin 100th Anniversary Collection.