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Cargando... The Corpse Who Killspor Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre
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It grips the attention at the outset, and is one of the best detective stories of the day. Contenido enTiene la adaptación
Fantômas strikes again in this third installment in the intoxicating crime series On Rue Norvins, the police find a famous heiress poisoned to death in the studio of a ceramics painter. The artist, in a state of partial paralysis, remembers nothing. These bare and baffling facts will lead newspaperman Jérôme Fandor from the magnificent ballrooms of the aristocracy to the scrubby pubs of the Parisian underworld as his search for the truth uncovers ruined fortunes, desperate suicides, mistaken identities, and even romance. Never far from such evil and outrageous doings is a villain so mysterious, so extraordinary, so clever and cruel that he can only have one name: Fantômas! This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Focussing mainly on the investigations made by the young journalist, Jérôme Fandor, into the a spate of terrible crimes, seemingly disparate but which he becomes increasingly convinced are linked by the agency of the terrible king of atrocity, Fantômas!
Fantômas is a master of disguise whose identity and history are entirely unknown. Thus, any of the characters in the story, and possibly more than one, might be Fantômas. Like Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, Fantômas is the spider at the centre of a web of criminality, but unlike Moriarty, Fantômas is not above getting his own hands dirty. In fact, he seems to positively relish being personally involved in the crimes he's planned (robbery, murder, bombings, torture, mutilation, and is there an oblique allusion to rape?).
Fantômas is not only a brilliantly ingenious strategist, he is also adept in hand-to-hand combat, an agile housebreaker and silent assassin. When not in disguise, his appearances are in the form of an athletic man dressed in form-fitting black suit and a hood showing only his piercing eyes: Fantômas the first European ninja!
The whole of this story is set in Paris and it was fun to read along with Google Maps/Street View to hand so that I could follow Fandor's hunt through the fashionable boulevards and narrow twisting alleyways. Obviously, much has changed, but many of the streets and buildings mentioned still remain, silent witnesses to the hideous crimes of Fantômas.
I do hope that more of the series appears in English translation. ( )