Maurice-Marie-Emile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French writer. Initially working as a reporter at Figaro, he released several collections of short stories, but did not gain much success. The influential Parisian publisher Pierre Lafitte became Leblanc's literary "godfather". He suggested that he come up with a hero who could compete in popularity with Sherlock Holmes. And Leblanc created Arsene Lupin, an image—myth in which the French were pleased to recognize themselves: a strong and brave hero, cunning, astute and, most importantly, witty: he defeats his enemies by ridiculing them. In addition to five collections of short stories, fifteen novels and three plays about Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc also wrote two dozen adventure, science fiction, romance novels and short story collections. This volume presents the novel "Rope Dancer", the characters of which are trying in vain to unravel the mysterious inscription and find treasures, linking this mystery only with Roboray Castle, and the solution turns out to be in a completely different place. But in search of treasure, they find loyal friends and devoted love. The novel "Victor from the special brigade" tells about the adventures of Arsene Lupin, the legendary hero of many books by Leblanc.