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| Authors: |
Arturo Perez-Reverte |
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David Warner |
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Economist: "Perez-Reverte is a master of intelligent suspense and reader-friendly action." |
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Format: Audio - Compact Disc
Publisher: Ingram Pub Services (January 01, 2007)
Measurements: 5.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9781597774987 |
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The flash projected the outline of the hanged man onto the wall. He hung motionless from a light fixture in the center of the room, and as the photographer moved around him, taking pictures, the flashes threw the silhouette onto a succession of paintings, glass cabinets full of porcelain, shelves of books, open curtains framing great windows beyond which the rain was falling. |
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Lucas Corso, an antiquarian book-hunter-for-hire based in Madrid, traffics in only the rarest and most exquisite volumes. He has just accepted two jobs: one to determine the authenticity of a recently discovered manuscript reputed to be the original 42nd chapter to THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and the other, to find and compare three copies of THE BOOK OF THE NINE DOORS. But only one of these copies can be the original. The book is a 17th-century manual for summoning the Devil, and its printer was burned at the stake during the Inquisition, along with all but the one copy of the book that he hid from the authorities. In order to examine all three copies, Corso travels to Paris and Portugal, and eventually discovers the Club Dumas, a secret society whose members might be able to unlock the mystery of the volumes. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997. |
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