Arturo Perez-Reverte

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 ofmystery 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
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413 printed pages
Original publication
2006
Publication year
2006
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  • Maria Gonzalez Najerahas quoted5 years ago
    place. "This is how it looks, to God's shame
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    young for you, that is."

    Corso smiled. "You'd be surprised how old she seems sometimes.
  • Maria Gonzalez Najerahas quoted5 years ago
    How about a champagne breakfast between Vienna and Nice?"

    "Interesting. Like spying on Basil Zaharoff."

    "Or getting drunk with Nijinsky."

    "Stealing Coco Chanel's pearls."

    "Flirting with Paul Morand ... Or Mr. Barnabooth."
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