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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade ReviewA 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 *
