To round off the book, the translators have written a brief, mellow tale, 'Escape Not the Thunderbolt', recounting a final meeting between Lupin and Holmes. Like many of Lupin's exploits, this is essentially a treasure hunt, requiring the solution of some cunningly devised clues, but the devil-may-care character of the earlier tale gives way to a deeper and darker conclusion. Forced to change the name of his antagonist following a legal challenge by Holmes’ creator, Leblanc still manages to pull off one of the greatest fictional mashups of all time.
'The Hollow Needle', a short novel, is naturally on a larger scale, and, although Holmes plays a vital, or rather fatal, rôle in the story, Lupin's principal opponent here is Isidore Beautrelet, a tribute to Gaston Leroux's young detective Rouletabille. eBook Download BOOK EXCERPT: Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. There is a fiendishly difficult puzzle, an apparently impossible robbery, a touch of romance and as this is Leblanc's book, not Conan Doyle's, Lupin wins the duel of wits, but only just. The short story 'Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late' sets the tone admirably, pitting the mercurial Gallic intelligence of the one against the remorseless Anglo-Saxon logic of the other. In Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes: The Hollow Needle, newly translated by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier ($20.95), we have the first encounter and the last between the master burglar and the master detective. "One of the great heroes a century ago was Maurice Leblanc's creation, the gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin (so much more stylish than his British prototype Raffles, and so much less sanctimonious) who faced Sherlock Holmes on four occasions in his varied career. The book as a whole combines a strong mystery, a villain that is so dastardly he becomes likeable." ".The book and accompanying short stories provide a highly entertaining read. Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late by Maurice Leblanc The book also includes SHERLOCK HOLMES ARRIVES TOO LATE, the first 1906 Lupin-Holmes short story, and ESCAPE NOT THE THUNDERBOLT, an all-new account of the final encounter between the Gentleman Burglar and the Great Detective, written by J.-M. Herlock Sholmes because of copyright issues, we have taken the liberty of replacing the counterfeit names originally published with those of the original sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes (in the place of Herlock Sholmes) and his faithful Dr. This famous 1909 Holmesian pastiche has been retranslated for the first time. Albeit, Arsen Lupin always ridiculed his adversary Sherlock Holmes and that. The secret of the Treasure of the Kings of France and an ancient riddle pit Arsène Lupin against Sherlock Holmes and Paris' youngest detective Isidore Beautrelet - an homage to Gaston Leroux's Rouletabille. Firstly, Ive not read the novel, nor seen previous adaptations of this. This famous 1909 Holmesian pastiche has been retranslated for the first time and includes the first 1906 Lupin-Holmes short story and another all-new story. Yes, the word is too small for them not to cross paths again." "I believe that Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes shall meet again some day. Don't miss this extravagant game of plot and counterplot with two of the greatest characters in the mystery genre: Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin.ARSENE LUPIN vs. SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOLLOW NEEDLE Finally, the great Sherlock Holmes himself is brought in to bring the elusive Lupin to justice.īoth are at the very pinnacles of their respective professions, and each gives as well as he gets in this royal battle of wits. A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc created the character of. The character has also appeared in a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television such as Night Hood, stage play and comic book adaptations.
Though Inspector Ganimard, who has already arrested Lupin once, does his very best, he is at a complete loss. Arsne Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief who appears in a series of detective fiction and crime fiction novels by the French writer Maurice Leblanc. How did he do this, given their sheer impossibility and absolute lack of clues? All three of these burglaries couldn't have logically happened, and the valuable pieces are, indeed, missing. Three desperate crimes each proclaim the orchestration of Arsène Lupin (master of disguise, historian, fine-art expert, and gentleman thief).
The result is an experience for the ages that you won't want to miss. Herlock Sholmes because of copyright issues, we have taken the liberty of replacing the counterfeit names originally published with those of the original sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes (in the place of Herlock Sholmes) and his faithful Dr. The national burglar of France faces off against the national detective of England in two unforgettable stories.