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Title: Fantomas
Author: Pierre Souvestre
Marcel Allain
Translator: Cranstoun Metcalfe
Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27794]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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FANTOMAS
PIERRE SOUVESTRE
AND
MARCEL ALLAIN
_Translated from the original French by_
CRANSTOUN METCALFE
_Introduction to the Dover Edition by_
ROBIN WALZ
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
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
CONTENTS
Introduction to the Dover Edition v
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Genius of Crime 1
II. A Tragic Dawn 12
III. The Hunt for the Man 26
IV. "No! I am not Mad!" 34
V. "Arrest Me!" 45
VI. "Fantomas, it is Death!" 52
VII. The Criminal Investigation Department 68
VIII. A Dreadful Confession 82
IX. All for Honour 92
X. Princess Sonia's Bath 104
XI. Magis
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