Yes, go watch the movie 'The Ninth Gate' for bad adaptation of the novel... I wouldn't that _The Club Dumas_ is, however, _The Fencing Master_ is more what you're looking for. <g> David A. Rodemaker > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at slac.stanford.edu] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 1:38 PM > To: Dragaera List > Subject: Re: Tres Amusant! > > By the way, has anyone here read Arturo Perez-Reverte's _The Club Dumas_, > which concerns, according to Amazon, "Fallen angels, satanic manuals, > and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas > among others" - sounds like it might in some ways be very SKZBian. >