The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Translated): The Lupin Project, Book 7: A Complete Modern English Translation (ARSÈNE LUPIN THE FORGOTTEN NOVELS) - Maurice Leblanc;Sofia E. V. Hamett
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The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Translated): The Lupin Project, Book 7: A Complete Modern English Translation (ARSÈNE LUPIN THE FORGOTTEN NOVELS)
Maurice Leblanc;Sofia E. V. Hamett
Synopsis "The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Translated): The Lupin Project, Book 7: A Complete Modern English Translation (ARSÈNE LUPIN THE FORGOTTEN NOVELS)"
Eight linked mysteries and a wager, in a new complete modern English version.The strangest book in the canon, and the one readers tend to love best once they have found it. Lupin is not called Lupin in it. He is Prince Serge Rénine, and he spends the book doing something he has never done before: solving other people's problems, one after another, for the amusement of a woman he is in love with.The woman is Hortense Daniel, unhappily married, bored to the point of despair, and shut up in a country house she cannot leave. Rénine offers her a bargain. They will undertake eight adventures together within three months, and at the eighth, when a certain clock strikes eight, she will owe him a kiss. She agrees, half in mockery. The bargain is the book.What follows is eight short, hard, beautifully engineered mysteries, each complete in itself: a woman thrown into a dungeon at the top of a tower; an innocent man due to be guillotined at dawn and one night in which to save him; a murder committed in a locked room in front of twenty witnesses; a film that gives away a crime nobody knew had been committed; a man with two mothers and no name; a madwoman who kills to steal other people's sleep; a dead man who walks home backwards through the snow; and a shop on the Île Saint-Louis where a stolen talisman has been hidden for nine years in plain sight.Footprints in the Snow is one of the finest detective stories written in French. The solution is a single sentence, and it is hidden in the ordinary fact that a man can walk in two directions.Leblanc's own note to the French edition insists that Rénine and Lupin are two different men. Nobody has ever believed him, and the last page of the book makes the question academic. It is Lupin in love, working at the top of his powers, with nothing to steal.WHY THIS EDITIONComplete and unabridged, translated in full from the French, with Leblanc's own prefatory note.Modern English throughout: no Edwardian translationese, no footnotes, and nothing left standing in French that would stop a reader who has none.One translator across the whole canon, so the series reads in a single voice.Designed for print: 6x9, with a full table of contents.Book 7 of The Lupin Project, the complete Maurice Leblanc in modern English. Read more
