The Dumas club
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TextPublication details: London Vintage Books 2003Description: 323pISBN: 9780099448594Subject(s): Spanish fictionDDC classification: 863.64 Summary:
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?
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| 863.64 LLO/T The time of the hero | 863.64 LLO/T The war of the end of the world | 863.64 MAR/C Cambridge introduction to Gabriel García Márquez / | 863.64 PER/D The Dumas club | 869.3 COE/B By the river Piedra I sat down and wept | 869.34 COE/A Alchemist | 869.34 COE/A Aleph / |
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?
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