Ars&egrave;ne Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (French: Ars&egrave;ne Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes) is the second collection of Ars&egrave;ne Lupin stories written by Maurice Leblanc, featuring two adventures following a match of wits between Lupin and Herlock Sholmes. The character &quot;Herlock Sholmes&quot; is a transparent reference to Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle&#39;s detective stories, who appeared in &quot;Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late&quot;, one of the eight stories in the first collection, Ars&egrave;ne Lupin, Gentleman Burglar.<br /><br />The&nbsp; English collection contain the following chapters or stories:<br />Ars&egrave;ne Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (2 stories)<br />1) &quot;The Blond Lady&quot; (novel)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lottery Ticket No. 514<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Blue Diamond<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Herlock Sholmes Opens Hostilities<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Light in the Darkness<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An Abduction<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Second Arrest of Ars&egrave;ne Lupin<br />2) &quot;The Jewish Lamp&quot; (tale)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Shipwreck<br /><br />Summary<br />The first story, &quot;The Blonde Lady&quot;, opens with the purchase of an antique desk by a mathematics professor. The desk is subsequently stolen, as it turns out, by Ars&egrave;ne Lupin. Later, both Lupin and the professor realize that a lottery ticket, left inadvertently in the desk, is the winning ticket, and Lupin proceeds to ensure he obtains half of the winnings while executing a near-impossible escape with a blonde lady...<br /><br />&quot;The Jewish Lamp&quot; opens with another appeal to Herlock Sholmes for help in recovering a Jewish lamp. After reading the appeal, Sholmes is shocked to read a second letter, this time by Lupin and arriving on the same day&#39;s post, which warns him not to intervene. Sholmes is outraged by Lupin&#39;s audacity and resolves to go to Paris. Sholmes proceeds to investigate the crime and finds out the true reason for Lupin&#39;s appeal not to intervene.<br />|Wikipedia|