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Title: Messengers of Evil
Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantomas

Author: Pierre Souvestre
Marcel Allain

Release Date: March 15, 2009 [EBook #28333]

Language: English

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MESSENGERS OF EVIL

BEING A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE LURES AND DEVICES OF FANTOMAS

THE FANTOMAS DETECTIVE NOVELS

BY PIERRE SOUVESTRE AND MARCEL ALLAIN

AUTHORS OF "FANTOMAS," "THE EXPLOITS OF JUVE," ETC.

NEW YORK
BRENTANO'S
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY BRENTANO'S

CONTENTS

I. THE DRAMA OF THE RUE NORVINS

II. THOMERY'S TWO LOVES

III. UNEXPECTED COMPLICATIONS

IV. A SURPRISING ITINERARY

V. MOTHER TOULOUCHE AND CRANAJOUR

VI. IN THE OPPOSITE SENSE

VII. PEARLS AND DIAMONDS

VIII. END OF THE BALL

IX. FINGER PRINTS

X. IDENTITY OF A NAVVY

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

MESSENGERS OF EVIL

I

THE DRAMA OF THE RUE NORVINS

On Monday, April 4th, 19--, the evening paper _La Capitale_ published
the following article on its first page:--

A drama, over the motives of which there is a bewildering host of
conjectures, was unfolded this morning on the heights of Montmartre. The
Baroness de Vibray, well known in the Parisian world and among artists,
whose generous patroness she was, has been fo