Arsène Lupin contra Herlock Sholmès

Por Maurice Leblanc

Continuación del último episodio con el que cierra Arsène Lupin, caballero ladrón: “Herlock Sholmès llega tarde”.

Arsène Lupin se ve envuelto en dos robos y una estafa. Las tres víctimas deciden unirse y llamar a Herlock Sholmès para que viaje desde Londres y ponga las cosas en su sitio. Sholmès descubre tres secretos que están a punto de perder a Lupin: los túneles ocultos por los que se mueve, el pseudónimo con el que vive entre la gente honesta, y su amor apasionado por la hija del arquitecto Destange. Pero las tornas se vuelven y Lupin no solo consigue escapar de Sholmès sino que lo envía prisionero en un barco de vuelta a Inglaterra.

Por eso, cuando el barón d’Imblevalle—a quien Lupin ha despojado de una lámpara judía donde guarda las joyas de la familia vuelve a llamarlo a Francia, Sholmès está preparado para la venganza.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Open Road Integrated Media
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 17 jun 2014
• ISBN: 9781497663749

Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc was born in 1864 in Rouen. From a young age he dreamt of being a writer and in 1905, his early work caught the attention of Pierre Lafitte, editor of the popular magazine, Je Sais Tout. He commissioned Leblanc to write a detective story so Leblanc wrote 'The Arrest of Arsène Lupin' which proved hugely popular. His first collection of stories was published in book form in 1907 and he went on to write numerous stories and novels featuring Arsène Lupin. He died in 1941 in Perpignan.

Comentarios para Arsène Lupin contra Herlock Sholmès

[leslie398 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

3.5*

Herlock Sholmes and his sidekick Wilson were hilarious!

[misura_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

If you've picked up /Arsene Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes/ (also by Wildside Press) already, this book contains nothing new - the only difference between this one and that one is the translator.Personally, I liked the translation in ALVHS much better; the language used in this translation feels a little old-fashioned and pompous sometimes, and makes for far less comfortable reading (which is - well, I don't read these novels because I have to, so that's a pretty big thing to me. Tastes may vary, though).I gave four stars to the other translation - this one gets two-and-a-half because the stories and the mysteries are still good (or even great); it's just the way they're told that pleases me less.