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. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan?
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099448594
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 235 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 20 mm
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
Some of you may have seen the movie titled “The Ninth Gate”, very loosely based on the novel in question. I personally did not like it much but that did not put me off from reading the book (rightly so). The movie... More
Although I enjoyed the film...I just had to read the book to find out more about the Girl who appears to help Corso and to understand more about this excellent mystery.
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