The van was a decoy: Guédira says it is Lupin
The raid at Pantin finds a hired driver and a phone. Guédira guesses the kidnapper never left City Hall, because that is what Arsène Lupin does.
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5 moments.
Guédira's Lupin ally poses as his girlfriend
Guédira recruits a fellow Lupin obsessive who agrees Diop may have faked his death; when a colleague walks in, she improvises a cover story.
Guédira refuses to believe Diop is dead and checks the corpse himself
Guédira argues Lupin always fakes his death, then insists on examining the body in the morgue with his own ears.
Guédira pitches Fleur Bélanger a Lupin theory over coffee
The detective corners the journalist, asks how a photographer beat the police to the morgue, and proposes a give-and-take.
Guédira finds the answer in Edith Swanneck: Lupin never dies
In the manuscript room Guédira rereads the novel's tunnel escape, then turns to a map of the Paris sewers.