The Blonde Lady: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Blonde Lady, credited to Maurice Leblanc, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective by Maurice Leblanc, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Read by Leni. In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. If in the last story of "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar" Sherlock Holmes arrives too late (the name was at a later date changed to Herlock Sholmes in reply to complaints and threats by Conan Doyle regarding copyrights), in the two stories that compose "The Blonde Lady" these two great intellects are bound in opposite directions. Where one chooses to abide to the law, the other uses his power and wits to crime - and who is going to win? These two stories appeared in chapters and as separate pieces in the magazine Je Sais Tout, during the years of 1906 and 1907, and were published together as a book first in 1908, being the second of the books where Arsène Lupin, the kind-hearted and humorous thief, is the main character. (Summary by Leni) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Blonde Lady
• Author credits: Maurice Leblanc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 6:43:59

Catalogue topics

• The Blonde Lady
• Maurice Leblanc
• Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• Arsène Lupin
• Arsene Lupin
• Holmlock Shears
• Herlock Sholmes
• gentleman-burglar

Track guide

1. 1 - Number 514, Series 23 — 55:17
2. 2 - The Blue Diamond — 48:38
3. 3 - Holmlock Shears Opens Hostilities — 44:23
4. 4 - A Glimmer in the Darkness — 41:16
5. 5 - Kidnapped — 49:10
6. 6 - The Second Arrest of Arsene Lupin — 48:20
7. 7 - The Jewish Lamp, part 1 — 34:27
8. 8 - The Jewish Lamp, part 2 — 34:12
9. 9 - The Jewish Lamp, part 3 — 48:19

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