Belgium's Agony
by Emile Verhaeren
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/n/a
- Seller
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Anacortes, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers , Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.
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- Bookseller
- Coast to Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 364
- Title
- Belgium's Agony
- Author
- Emile Verhaeren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1915
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