The Dumas Club
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the currency is not money but life.A well-known bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript chapter of Alexander Dumas’s classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain’s wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a seventeenth-century manual for su….Read More
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