The Club Dumas
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The Club Dumas
- The Club Dumas By Perez Reverte Arturo Soto Sonia
<P><B>A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure</B></P><P> </P><P>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 <I>The Three Musketeers</I>, 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.
