Critical Praise

"Erudite, funny, loopy, brilliant . . . actiona-adventure spiced with dollops of idiosyncrasy--and some very good talk."

——Philadelphia Inquirer

"A noir metafiction. . . . Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this stylish, Escher-like mystery."

——The New Yorker

"Pérez-Reverte has . . . improved on the detective story, taking the often predictable formula and convoluting it with delicious material about eclectic aspects of the literary world."

——Los Angeles Times

"A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. . . .Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals."

——New York Daily News