Critical Praise

"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

"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

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

——New York Daily News