Friday, March 28, 2025

Herlock Sholmès on the Trail of Arsène Lupin

 The first part of Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes, called "The Blonde Lady", sees France's greatest thief and England's greatest detective playing cat-and-mouse games all over Paris, so I began to wonder how it would look on a map. I started to piece together such a map, but as it turns out (perhaps unsurprisingly) someone had already done it -- Bernadette Pivote, who does a lot on what might be called Literary Paris, the city as seen through novels. 


Her brief summaries of the places and how they appear in "La Dame blonde" (in French) are worth reading, and I highly recommend them -- especially if you are reading the novel, of course, but it is also interesting in itself.