The Dumas Club

Informationen zum Autor Arturo Peréz-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master , his first novel, Pérez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litterature Policiere in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp. Klappentext New to Vintage. "A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detection" -- Michael Kerrigan Scotsman "A noir meta-fiction. Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and a copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this Escher-like mystery" New Yorker "A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game which brilliantly illustrates the sheer delight of fiction" -- Stephanie Merritt Daily Telegraph "A rip-roaring entertainment - tongue in cheek and sword in hand" Mail on Sunday Zusammenfassung A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil.

Product details

• Authors: Arturo Perez-Reverte, Arturo Peréz-Reverte, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.1997
• EAN: 9780099448594
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944859-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Spanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Southern Europe, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Fiction in translation, Spanish