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Synopsis
What could possibly be the connection between an allegedly authentic manuscript of a chapter from Dumas The Three Musketeers and a 17th century occult text, a manual for invoking the devil, only one copy of which is believed to have survived after its was publisher was burnt at the stake? Gin-swilling book-hunter Lucas Corso is hired to authenticate the Dumas manuscript. At the same time, Varo Borja, the owner of an occult text, The Nine Doors, persuades him to investigate two further editions of the book known to be in collections in Sintra and Paris. As Corso digs into the mystery, the twilight world of antiquarian bookselling, a milieu of ruthless predators, unfolds. Corso finds himself sharing a stage with a cast of characters who seem to have walked straight off the pages of a Dumas novel. And Corso appears to have been assigned the role of D Artagnan.
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About the Author
Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Perez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litterature Policiere in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp.
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"A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detection" -- Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman * "A noir meta-fiction. Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and a copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this Escher-like mystery" * New Yorker * "A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game which brilliantly illustrates the sheer delight of fiction" -- Stephanie Merritt * Daily Telegraph * "A rip-roaring entertainment - tongue in cheek and sword in hand" * Mail on Sunday *
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- PublisherHARVILL. LONDON 1996
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1860460712
- ISBN 13 9781860460715
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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