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The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto (Translation)

The Club Dumas - Sonia Soto, Arturo Pérez-Reverte

bookshelves: fraudio, mystery-thriller, books-about-books-and-book-shops

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: vivienne
Read in January, 2009

 

oooh lots of mumbo jumbo and an albino henchman - fab stuff!

It seems that I will need to go hunting for a Depp film and that never hurts my eyes.

 

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.