The Club Dumas

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1 International Bestseller”A 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 Read
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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperVia (May 1, 2006)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 015603283X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 34
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.92 x 8 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #98,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,013 in Historical Thrillers (Books) #2,414 in Murder Thrillers #6,298 in Literary Fiction (Books)
• #1,013 in Historical Thrillers (Books)
• #2,414 in Murder Thrillers