[HPforGrownups] Re: Arsene Lupin

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 157425

At 00:03 +0000 on 08/25/2006, Neri wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re: 
Arsene Lupin:

>I believe I had to stop in the middle because
>Monsieur Lupin was quite possibly the worst Gary Stu I have ever had
>the misfortune to meet in any book. Just to give you a notion, there
>was a British detective in that book and his name was Herlock Sholmes
>(yes, you read correctly). And of course, Monsieur Lupin repeatedly
>put Mr. Sholmes in his place and showed him who was the real ace
>detective around, which was (surprise! surprise!) Arsene Lupin. It was
>quite disgusting. Of course, it might have been a very clever parody
>that just went over my head.

Herlock Sholmes was named Sherlock Holmes in the original pulp story 
publication but the name was changed in the reprints (and inclusion 
in Lupin story collections) due to Conan Doyle complaining. It was 
meant as a parody and homage (something that Conan Doyle himself did 
in at least one of his Holmes stories when he mentioned another 
author's detective as being in the Holmes universe [ie: An actual 
off-stage character not just as a fictional character]).

See the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsene_Lupin which 
has this to say on the Herlock Sholmes/Sherlock Holmes issue:


>Arsne Lupin and Sherlock Holmes were bound to meet and, in an 
>unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Leblanc 
>introduced Holmes in the short story Sherlock Holmes arrive trop 
>tard in Je Sais Tout No. 17, 15 June 1906. In it, Holmes meets a 
>young Lupin for a brief time, unaware that he is, in fact, Lupin. 
>After legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to 
>"Herlock Sholmes" when the story was collected in bookform in Volume 
>1.
>
>Holmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, Arsne 
>Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes, and then in a guest-starring role in 
>the prodigious battle for the secret of the Hollow Needle in 
>L'Aiguille Creuse, where he accidentally shoots Lupin's fiance.