Fantômas. Marcel Allain

      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?"