Bøger af Marcel Allain

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Show Excerpt "Fifty thousand at least, the Cooper told me." Loupart nodded, waved the Beard aside and resumed: "Address it to "Monsieur Juve, "Commissioner of Safety, "At the Prefecture, Paris." II ON THE TRACK The daily paper, The Capital, was about to go to press. The editors had handed over the last slips of copy with the latest news. "Well, Fandor," asked the Secretary, "nothing more for me?" "No, nothing." "You won't spring a 'latest' on me?" "Not unless the President of the Republic should be assassinated." "Right enough. But don't joke. Lord, there's something else to be done just now." The "setter up" appeared in the editor's rooms: "I want sharp type for 'one, ' and eight lines for 'two.'" Discreetly, as a man accustomed to the business, Fandor withdrew on he

Messengers of Evil; Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

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From the author of Fantômas, this World War I espionage thriller, first published in 1919, follows a group of French patriots as they struggle to prevent the the Kaiser and his dastardly “Boches” from recovering a certain yellow document containing the plans for a secret weapon that could decide the outcome of the war.

After leaving the captured Fantômas in the custody of Jerome Fandor, Inspector Juve is shocked to learn that the journalist has let him escape. With Fandor under suspicion of being an accomplice of the Genius of Evil, the two friends follow separate paths to track down their nemesis, with the final chapters of this, the thirty-sixth of the Fantômas novels, comprising what is surely the most dizzying, breakneck action sequence of the series.

The Baroness de Vibray has been poisoned. The painter Jacques Dollon is arrested, but he is discovered dead in his prison cell, an apparent suicide, before he can be questioned. The journalist Fandor attempts to unravel the mystery, suspecting none other than the Genius of Evil, Fantômas. Through passageways and sewers, over rooftops, he follows clues and runs into trouble with gangsters. Believing Fantômas is planning to rob the Barbey-Nanteuil Bank a trap is set for the master criminal-but will he escape again?"From the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist."-Guillaume Apollinaire"Absurd and magnificent lyricism."-Jean Cocteau

When the home of Dr. Chaleck is robbed and the corpse of a woman found crushed to death, Inspector Juve pursues the gang leader Loupart in connection with the gruesome crime. He and the journalist Jerome Fandor relentlessly pursue suspects, narrow escaping high-speed train wrecks, blazing infernos, and the diabolical snares of the Genius of Crime, Fantomas."From the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist."-Guillaume Apollinaire"Absurd and magnificent lyricism."-Jean Cocteau