The Club Dumas
Subtitle: a novel
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto.
Contributors: Soto, Sonia.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Description: "Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment."--BOOK JACKET.

"The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso 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 in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer."--BOOK JACKET.