The Club Dumas (1993)
The Club Dumas is a 1993 Spanish-language antiquarians book written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Lucas Corso is a mercenary book hunter, hired by wealthy collectors to authenticate and track down rare editions. Two commissions collide: verifying a handwritten chapter of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, and comparing the three surviving copies of The Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows, a seventeenth-century occult manual said to have been illustrated by the Devil himself and burned by the Inquisition. As Corso crosses Europe chasing the engravings, the books' owners start turning up dead, and what began as a literary puzzle bleeds into a genuine satanic conspiracy. Arturo Pérez-Reverte's bibliophile thriller was the basis for Roman Polanski's film The Ninth Gate.
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What is The Club Dumas about?
Lucas Corso is a mercenary book hunter, hired by wealthy collectors to authenticate and track down rare editions. Two commissions collide: verifying a handwritten chapter of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, and comparing the three surviving copies of The Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows, a seventeenth-century occult manual said to have been illustrated by the Devil himself and burned by the Inquisition. As Corso crosses Europe chasing the engravings, the books' owners start turning up dead, and what began as a literary puzzle bleeds into a genuine satanic conspiracy. Arturo Pérez-Reverte's bibliophile thriller was the basis for Roman Polanski's film The Ninth Gate.
When was The Club Dumas published?
The Club Dumas was published in 1993.
Who made The Club Dumas?
The Club Dumas was written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
The Club Dumas in our writing
- Companion guide: Deals with the Devil
- Companion guide: The Occult & Black Magic