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Name: The Club Dumas

Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Year: 1993
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Popularity: 7.5
Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Culture: Spain

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ISBN:
9780156032834
015603283X
Winner of the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize in 1994.

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.
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