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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I suspect that Arsène Lupin really picks up with the next books. And the encounter with Sherlock Holmes in the last story in the book was amusing.
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Having read the Delphi classic LeBlanc collection last month, the 3500+ pages of Lupin are still painfully fresh in my mind. Some of the stories I enjoyed, but even the translator commented on the wildly inconsistent characterisation, with LKupin veering from amiable Robin Hood to ruthless gang leader to detective extraordinaire, even better than both Holmlock Shears and Herlock Sholmes (both of whom he tangles with). There were some gems, my favorites being the shorter stories in which Lupin was (uncharacteristically) shown as other than omniscient, omnipotent and, to all intents and purposes, immortal.