SHERLOCK HOLMES. FANTOMAS LUPIN RAFFLES AND MORE

<p>Plays by Gonzalo Jover & Emilio G. del Castillo Jose Maria Martin de Eugenio and Heraclio S. Viteri & Enrique Grimau del Mauro; Adapted & introduced by Frank J. Morlock.<br /> <br />This collection contains five plays written between 1908 and 1916 by Spanish playwrights who appropriated both English and French popular characters with a considerable degree of success in order to craft effective pastiches that are also brilliant action drama.<br /> <br />Sherlock Holmes vs. Raffles and its sequel The Clutches of Sherlock Holmes pit the Great Detective against the E. W. Hornung’s master-thief.<br /> <br />The Triumph of Fantômas and The Resurrection of Fantômas star the eponymous Genius of Evil<br /> <br />Finally Arsène Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Hollow Needle is a free adaptation of Maurice Leblanc’s masterpiece in which the celebrated Gentleman-Burglar fights Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Ganimard for the possession of the secret of the Kings of France.<br /> <br />The often surreal quality of the action give these plays a dream-like quality that however far-fetched the plot make them all the more scary and unnerving.</p>