![]() ![]() He places a double-crossing minion face up in a guillotine to witness his own execution. His bandits crash a city bus into a bank to pull off a dazzling heist. ![]() He leaves severed hands scattered about a Monte Carlo casino. Fantômas poisons a baroness with opium-laced black roses. They were not disappointed: treated to brutal murders and spectacular crimes on the pages within, the exploits of the villain continued to shock and delight over the course of thirty-two consecutive novels. The cover, featuring a masked man in tuxedo and top hat looming across the urban landscape of Paris, resting his chin on one hand and clutching a bloody dagger in the other, promised readers spine-shivering thrills. The first Fantômas crime novel by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain was released on February 10, 1911. Robert Desnos, The Ballad of Fantômas (1933) INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION - “The Emperor of Crime” Manufactured in the United States of Americaĭover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 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. ![]()
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