| The Club Dumas Contributor(s): Perez-Reverte, Arturo (Author) |
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ISBN: 015603283X ISBN-13: 9780156032834 Publisher: Harpervia OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, Lucas Corso is brought in to authenticate a fragment of a manuscript purported to be "The Three Musketeers." He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and a swashbuckling cast that bears a suspicious resemblance to those in the famous work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.36" W x 8.14" (0.76 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #1 International BestsellerA thriller of marvelous intricacy (The New York Times Book Review), The Club Dumas is a provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure.Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.Erudite, funny, loopy, brilliant...action-adventure spied with dollops of idiosyncrasy -- and some very good talk. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer |
Contributor Bio(s): Perez-Reverte, Arturo: - ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, and the Captain Alatriste series. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. |