The island of 30 coffins
The Island of Thirty Coffins is a novel by Maurice Leblanc from 1919. It tells the eerie story of the young Véronique d'Hergemont, who in 1917 uncovered a terrible secret while searching for her own past . Horrible prophecies come true on an island in Brittany : Véronique has to watch her fourteen-year-old son, believed dead, murder his grandfather, three old women are crucified and fleeing islanders shot. Véronique faces up to the sinister powers ...
Text output
- The Island of Thirty Coffins , ISBN 978-3-945796-29-0 .
filming
In 1979 it was filmed as "L'île aux trente cercueils" (German title of the six-hour TV film: The island of thirty deaths ) by Marcel Cravenne with Claude Jade as Véronique d'Hergemont.