Reverte, Arturo Perez creator Soto, Sonia translator text cb Orlando Harcout , Inc 1993 First Harvest edition 2006 monographic eng

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362 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm . 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. W 850 Lexile estimate W Raz-Plus by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Spanish fiction Alexandre Dumas fiction thriller fiction PQ6666.E765 863.64 9780156032834 FISKH 241121 20241121155126.0 5269 eng