Allain, Marcel — The Lord of Terror

Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1925. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards. Gilt lettering. No dust jacket. 352 pp. with no illus. A Fantomas Detective Novel. Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). Inspector Juve and journalist Jerome Fandor died when the ship S.S. Gigantic went down off the coast of Newfoundland. Also dead in the shipwreck was their arch-enemy, the master criminal Fantomas. How then, ten years later, do Juve and Fandor find them selves alive on a roof-top in Marseilles? The men find it hard to convince anyone, especially the police department, that they are indeed themselves! When Eleonore de Vautreuil mysteriously appears, when she should be on a ship thousands of miles away, the Vautreuils are mystified. VG-, clean and tight; some general shelf wear; light age toning to page margins.