ARSENE LUPIN vs. HERLOCK SHOLMES: New Edition

ARSENE LUPIN vs. HERLOCK SHOLMES: New Edition

Every time I undertake to relate one of the many extraordinary adventures that mark the life of ArsÃ¨ne Lupin, I experience a feeling of embarrassment, as it seems to me that the most commonplace of those adventures is already well known to my readers. In fact, there is not a movement of our "national thief," as he has been so aptly described, that has not been given the widest publicity, not an exploit that has not been studied in all its phases, not an action that has not been discussed with that particularity usually reserved for the recital of heroic deeds. For instance, who does not know the strange history of "The Blonde Lady," with those curious episodes which were proclaimed by the newspapers with heavy black headlines, as follows: "Lottery Ticket No. 514!" ... "The Crime on the Avenue Henri-Martin!" ... "The Blue Diamond!" ... The interest created by the intervention of the celebrated English detective, Herlock Sholmes! The excitement aroused by the various vicissitudes which marked the struggle between those famous artists! And what a commotion on the boulevards, the day on which the newsboys announced: "Arrest of ArsÃ¨ne Lupin!" My excuse for repeating these stories at this time is the fact that I produce the key to the enigma. Those adventures have always been enveloped in a certain degree of obscurity, which I now remove. I reproduce old newspaper articles, I relate old-time interviews, I present ancient letters; but I have arranged and classified all that material and reduced it to the exact truth. My collaborators in this work have been ArsÃ¨ne Lupin himself, and also the ineffable Wilson, the friend and confidant of Herlock Sholmes. Every one will recall the tremendous burst of laughter which greeted the publication of those two telegrams. The name "ArsÃ¨ne Lupin" was in itself a stimulus to curiosity, a promise of amusement for the gallery. And, in this case, the gallery means the entire world. An investigation was immediately commenced by the CrÃ©dit Foncier, which established these facts: That ticket No. 514, series 23, had been sold by the Versailles branch office of the Lottery to an artillery officer named Bessy, who was afterward killed by a fall from his horse. Some time before his death, he informed some of his comrades that he had transferred his ticket to a friend. "And I am that friend," affirmed Mon. Gerbois. "Prove it," replied the governor of the CrÃ©dit Foncier. "Of course I can prove it. Twenty people can tell you that I was an intimate friend of Monsieur Bessy, and that we frequently met at the CafÃ© de la Place-d'Armes. It was there, one day, I purchased the ticket from him for twenty francsâ€”simply as an accommodation to him. "Have you any witnesses to that transaction?" "No." "Well, how do you expect to prove it?" "By a letter he wrote to me." "What letter?" "A letter that was pinned to the ticket." "Produce it." "It was stolen at the same time as the ticket." "Well, you must find it." It was soon learned that ArsÃ¨ne Lupin had the letter. A short paragraph appeared in the Echo de Franceâ€”which has the honor to be his official organ, and of which, it is said, he is one of the principal shareholdersâ€”the paragraph announced that ArsÃ¨ne Lupin had placed in the hands of Monsieur Detinan, his advocate and legal adviser, the letter that Monsieur Bessy had written to himâ€”to him personally.

Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781500708337
ISBN	150070833X
Label	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
NumberOfPages	132
PublicationDate	2014-08-04
Publisher	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Studio	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

ARSENE LUPIN vs. HERLOCK SHOLMES: New Edition

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