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VOLUME 1
VOLUME 2
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ARSENE LUPIN vs. HOLMES: Today is Monday. By 6 p.m. on Friday,
I will have arrested you and retrieved the Sultan Diamond. |
US$20.95/GBP 12.99 |
This 1910 stage play completes our trilogy of Lupinian / Holmesian pastiches and includes
an all-new Holmes play by Frank J. Morlock.
Arsène Lupin has stolen the Sultan Diamond under the nose of the French Police and
Sherlock Holmes has sworn to recover the stone and arrest his rival - all in less than a week!
This 1910 French stage play pitting France's notorious Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective has
never before been translated into English!
READ THE REVIEWS:
Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes: The Stage Play is not the work of Maurice Leblanc, but of Victor Darlay and Henri de Gorsse, who present
to us a Holmes accompanied not by Dr Watson, but by his young son Frederick Holmes, known as 'Little Sherlock'!
This gives rise to such unfortunate dialogue as: 'Ah! Bravo, Papa. You are truly the greatest detective in the
world.' 'Oh, a simple consulting detective, Frederick.' 'Yes, but smarter than all the other detectives combined.
Oh, Papa, one day I’d like to be as good a detective as you.' — and so on. That aberration apart, however, this
is an ingenious and imaginative comedy, matching the master burglar once again with the master detective. Holmes
actually does arrest Lupin and recover the Sultan Diamond, but of course Lupin escapes. It would be nice to see
Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes
staged, though the fact that it requires a cast of over thirty might make that difficult. As a bonus, the translator
has contributed an original one-act play The Real Sherlock Holmes, which turns upside-down all we thought we knew about Professor Moriarty.
The District Messenger
Contents:
- Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes by Darlay & De Gorsse
- The Real Sherlock Holmes by Frank J. Morlock