The Club Dumas

Arturo Perez-Reverte

• Publisher: HarperVia
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9780156032834
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547538181
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A rare book investigator gets caught in a deadly plot among Europe's elite literati in this acclaimed thriller—"a cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice" ( New York Daily News).
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.
Corso is soon drawn into a swirling conspiracy 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

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Introduction
• “The Anjou Wine”
• The Dead Man’s Hand
• Men of Words and Men of Action
• The Man with the Scar
• Remember
• Of Apocrypha and Interpolations
• Book Number One and Book Number Two
• Postuma Necat
• The Bookseller on the Rue Bonaparte
• Number Three
• The Banks of the Seine
• Buckingham and Milady
• The Plot Thickens
• The Cellars of Meung
• Corso and Richelieu
• A Device Worthy of a Gothic Novel
• About the Author