The Dumas Club is another of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novels with historical riddles seemingly leading our hero on the trail of something.
In this instance, we have a book collector who’s after a collection of three copies of a demonic books, of which only one copy can be the real one. At the same time, there’s a seemingly original chapter of Alexander Duma’s classic novel The Three Muskateers that’s somehow linked. And there are people relating to the novel’s characters who are chasing after either one thing or another, while others are being killed.
What’s going on?
Perez-Reverte leads us on a clever chase across Europe as the story is slowly unravels.
I’ve not seen the film that was based on this book – The Ninth Gate – but what I’ve read about it on the web makes it obvious that the story has been simplified in the extreme for the film. Roll on the next Perez-Reverte novel!