The Dumas Club
$26.01
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2003
Summary
In the world of rare books, everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the trading currency is not money, but life…
A well-known bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas’s classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain’s 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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099448594 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099448599 |
| Author: | Arturo Peréz-Reverte |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2003 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detection
A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detection – Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman *
A noir meta-fiction. Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and a copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this Escher-like mystery * New Yorker *
A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game which brilliantly illustrates the sheer delight of fiction – Stephanie Merritt * Daily Telegraph *
A rip-roaring entertainment - tongue in cheek and sword in hand * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Arturo Peréz-Reverte
Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Perez-Reverte has become one of Europe’s bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litterature Policiere in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp.
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