Film Tie-In of 'The Dumas Club'.
Enrique Taillefer is found hanging from a light fitting by the silk belt of his own dressing gown. Beneath him, open on the floor, lies a copy of Alexander Dumas's 'The Viscount Of Bragelonne'. Enrique had just sold a manuscript chapter of Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' to a bookseller. But Enrique's beautiful widow, Liana, will do almost anything to recover it.
Lucas Corso, an obsessional book hunter, is asked to authenticate the Dumas manuscript. He takes it to Boris Balkan, an expert on the nineteenth century novel, who is to play Watson to Corso's Holmes. At the same time, Corso hears of another text owned by one of Spain's wealthiest dealers, which purports to contain instructions on how to invoke the Devil and nine engravings attributed to the hand of Lucifer himself.
Side-tracked from the Dumas script, but somehow persuaded by Boris Balkan that there may be some occult link between the two texts, Corso sets out on a hunt that takes him to Sintra and Paris and right to the centre of a dangerous drama which bears all the hallmarks of a Dumas serial - with Corso as a latterday D'Artagnan.
Based on the novel 'The Dumas Club' and the film of the same name, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Johnny Depp.
