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Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

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CHAPTER I. Lottery Ticket No. 514
51:30
CHAPTER II. The Blue Diamond
48:41
CHAPTER III. Herlock Sholmes Opens Hostilities
46:27
CHAPTER IV. Light in the Darkness
40:01
CHAPTER V. An Abduction
49:33
CHAPTER VI. Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin
49:04
CHAPTER VII. The Jewish Lamp
55:23
CHAPTER VIII. The Shipwreck
62:16

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a public domain work.

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After Leblanc cheekily used Sherlock Holmes in a 1906 Lupin story, Arthur Conan Doyle's representatives complained, so Leblanc lightly redacted the name to Herlock Sholmes and his sidekick Watson became Wilson. Then he wrote two full novellas pitting the French gentleman thief against the British detective. The Blonde Lady involves a diamond heist and a cryptic clue chain. The Jewish Lamp revolves around a stolen lamp and a missing key.

The whole exercise is winking and playful. Sholmes is competent and methodical. Lupin is theatrical and improvisational. They check into the same hotels, read each other's mail, and one-up each other for two hundred pages. There is no real moral lesson here. Leblanc clearly enjoyed himself, and the book is best read in that spirit: a national-pride literary prank that somehow turned into a small classic of its own. If you want pure Lupin pleasure with a competent foil, start here.

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Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.