Fantômas. Marcel Allain

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       Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre

      Fantômas

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664653888

Table of Contents

       Introduction to the Dover Edition by Robin Walz

       I. The Genius of Crime

       II. A Tragic Dawn

       III. The Hunt for the Man

       IV. "No! I am not Mad!"

       V. "Arrest Me!"

       VI. "Fantômas, it is Death!"

       VII. The Criminal Investigation Department

       VIII. A Dreadful Confession

       IX. All for Honour

       X. Princess Sonia's Bath

       XI. Magistrate and Detective

       XII. A Knock-out Blow

       XIII. Thérèse's Future

       XIV. Mademoiselle Jeanne

       XV. The Mad Woman's Plot

       XVI. Among the Market Porters

       XVII. At the Saint-Anthony's Pig

       XVIII. A Prisoner and a Witness

       XIX. Jérôme Fandor

       XX. A Cup of Tea

       XXI. Lord Beltham's Murderer

       XXII. The Scrap of Paper

       XXIII. The Wreck of the "Lancaster"

       XXIV. Under Lock and Key

       XXV. An Unexpected Accomplice

       XXVI. A Mysterious Crime

       XXVII. Three Surprising Incidents

       XXVIII. The Court of Assize

       XXIX. Verdict and Sentence

       XXX. An Assignation

       XXXI. Fell Treachery

       XXXII. On the Scaffold

Introduction to the Dover Edition by Robin Walz

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      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

       Mineola, New York

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged republication of the

       work first published by Brentano's Publishers Inc., New York, in 1915.

      International Standard Book Number: 0–486-44971–8

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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I. The Genius of Crime

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      "Fantômas."

      "What did you say?"

      "I said: Fantômas."

      "And what does that mean?"

      "Nothing. … Everything!"

      "But what is it?"

      "Nobody. … And yet, yes, it is somebody!"

      "And what does the somebody do?"

      "Spreads terror!"

      Dinner was just over, and the company were moving into the drawing-room.

      Hurrying to the fireplace, the Marquise de Langrune took a large log from a basket and flung it on to the glowing embers on the hearth; the log crackled and shed a brilliant light over the whole room; the guests of the Marquise instinctively drew near to the fire.

      During the ten consecutive months she spent every year at her château of Beaulieu, on the outskirts of Corrèze, that picturesque district bounded by the Dordogne, it had been the immemorial custom of the Marquise de Langrune to entertain a few of her personal friends in the neighbourhood to dinner every Wednesday, thereby obtaining a little pleasant relief from her loneliness and keeping up some contact with the world.

      On this particular winter evening the good lady's guests included several habitués: President Bonnet, a retired magistrate who had withdrawn to his small property at Saint-Jaury, in the suburbs of Brives, and the Abbé Sicot, who was the parish priest. A more occasional friend was also there, the Baronne de Vibray,