Messengers of Evil / Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas
by Marcel Allain Pierre Souvestre
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About This Book
FANTOMAS is the Emperor of Crime, the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the villainous anti-hero of a series of sublime pulps, books brimming with motifs of the "marvellous": nuns, coffins, severed hands, daggers, masks, bleeding bells, corpses, poison flowers, lunatics and labyrinths.
Chapters (74)
- MESSENGERS OF EVIL
- BEING A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE LURES AND DEVICES OF FANTÔMAS
- THE FANTÔMAS DETECTIVE NOVELS
- AUTHORS OF "FANTÔMAS," "THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE," ETC.
- CONTENTS
- MESSENGERS OF EVIL
- I
- THE DRAMA OF THE RUE NORVINS
- The Discovery of the Crime
- Lodge Number 6
- First Verifications
- Jacques Dollon lives
- The Arrest
- Our Inquiry—Silence at Police Headquarters—Probable Motives of the Crime
- Last Hour
- II
- THOMERY'S TWO LOVES
- III
- UNEXPECTED COMPLICATIONS
- IV
- A SURPRISING ITINERARY
- V
- MOTHER TOULOUCHE AND CRANAJOUR
- "For the Curiosity Lover."
- VI
- IN THE OPPOSITE SENSE
- Still the Affair of the Rue Norvins
- VII
- PEARLS AND DIAMONDS
- VIII
- END OF THE BALL
- IX
- FINGER PRINTS
- X
- IDENTITY OF A NAVVY
- An Audacious Theft
- XI
- AN AUDACIOUS THEFT
- XII
- INVESTIGATIONS
- XIII
- RUE RAFFET
- XIV
- SOMEONE TELEPHONED
- XV
- VAGUE SUSPICIONS
- XVI
- DISCUSSIONS
- XVII
- AN ARREST
- XVIII
- AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TRUNK
- XIX
- CRIMINAL OR VICTIM?
- XX
- UNDER THE HOODED MASK
- XXI
- IN A PRISON VAN
- XXII
- AN EXECUTION
- XXIII
- FROM VAUGIRARD TO MONTMARTRE
- XXIV
- AT SAINT LAZARE
- XXV
- A MOUSE TRAP
- XXVI
- IN THE TRAP
- XXVII
- THE IMPRINT
- XXVIII
- COURAGE
- END
- FOOTNOTES
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