Perez-Reverte, Arturo
The Dumas club - London Vintage Books 2003 - 323p.
translated from Spanish
A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumass classic, The Three Musketeers . Across Madrid, Spains wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trai A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumass classic, The Three Musketeers . Across Madrid, Spains wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. Hes the unwitting protagonist in someones evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or dArtagnan?
9780099448594
Spanish fiction
863.64 / PER/D
The Dumas club - London Vintage Books 2003 - 323p.
translated from Spanish
A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumass classic, The Three Musketeers . Across Madrid, Spains wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trai A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumass classic, The Three Musketeers . Across Madrid, Spains wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. Hes the unwitting protagonist in someones evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or dArtagnan?
9780099448594
Spanish fiction
863.64 / PER/D