01659nam a22003137a 4500 5269 FISKH 20241121155126.0 241121b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780156032834 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH PQ6666.E765 863.64 Reverte, Arturo Perez The Club Dumas / by Arturo Pérez-Reverte First Harvest edition 2006 Orlando : Harcout , Inc ; 1993 . 362 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm . W 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'sThe 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. 850 Lexile estimate W Raz-Plus Spanish fiction Alexandre Dumas fiction thriller fiction Soto, Sonia translator ddc BK 0 5269 5269 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 SBS 2024-11-21 0 REV 863.64 PQ6666.E765 FISSE03136 2024-11-21 15:51:22 2024-11-21 BK