(Download) "Complete Fant么mas series Detective of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre" by Marcel Allain ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Complete Fant么mas series Detective of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Author : Marcel Allain
- Release Date : January 08, 2016
- Genre: Short Stories,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,British Detectives,Romance,Suspense,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2706 KB
Description
One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fant么mas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The character was also the basis of various film, television, and comic book adaptations. In the history of crime fiction, he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 1800s to modern-day serial killers.
A French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fant么mas.
Contents
Fant么mas (1915)
The Exploits of Juve (1917)
Messengers of Evil or The Vengeance of Fantomas (1917)
A Nest of Spies (1917)
A Royal Prisoner (1918)
The Adventures of Detective Juve in pursuit of a master in crime. Translated from the original French by Cranstoun Metcalfe.
In this continuation Fant么mas appears as the leader of a gang of Apaches, and as a physician of standing. Juve tracks the criminal to his secret hiding-place, but Fant么mas escapes.
Fant么mas now appears as the representative in Paris of a Foreign Government whose real business is to obtain important military secrets for Germany. Juve succeeds in defeating his efforts, but the criminal himself escapes once more.
This volume tells of the daring exploits of Fant么mas in his attempts to get possession of the King of Hesse-Weimar's famous diamond.