Love and Obsession

Romantic and possessive love drives many characters, especially Lupin's intense, conflicted feelings for Dolores Kesselbach, which lead to jealousy, violence, and ultimately tragedy, showing how love can become a destructive force.

Lupin's jealousy upon seeing Pierre's love for Dolores drives him to violence, revealing his obsessive and possessive feelings for her.

Love and Obsession is one of the patterns 813 by Maurice Leblanc returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.