num_pages: 336
description: 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.#1 International Bestseller"A thriller of marvelous intricacy" (The New York Times Book Review), The Club Dumas is a provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure.
language: English
title: The Dumas Club: The Ninth Gate
titlecomplete: The Dumas Club: The Ninth Gate
characters: Lucas Corso
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Spain, Mystery Thriller, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Books About Books
ratings_count: 40269
places: Spain, Madrid
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Palle Rosenkrantz Prisen, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Random House