The Man with the Black Feather
Gaston Leroux
A quiet Paris rope merchant discovers he is the reincarnation of Cartouche, the famous 18th-century bandit, and starts hunting for the treasure he buried two centuries ago. A comic fantastic novel in Edgar Jepson's 1912 translation, with the original illustrations.
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