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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