Bücher der Reihe Fantomas

After leaving the captured Fantômas in the custody of Jerome Fandor, Inspector Juve is shocked to learn that the journalist has let him escape. With Fandor under suspicion of being an accomplice of the Genius of Evil, the two friends follow separate paths to track down their nemesis, with the final chapters of this, the thirty-sixth of the Fantômas novels, comprising what is surely the most dizzying, breakneck action sequence of the series.

The Baroness de Vibray has been poisoned. The painter Jacques Dollon is arrested, but he is discovered dead in his prison cell, an apparent suicide, before he can be questioned. The journalist Fandor attempts to unravel the mystery, suspecting none other than the Genius of Evil, Fantômas. Through passageways and sewers, over rooftops, he follows clues and runs into trouble with gangsters. Believing Fantômas is planning to rob the Barbey-Nanteuil Bank a trap is set for the master criminal-but will he escape again?"From the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist."-Guillaume Apollinaire"Absurd and magnificent lyricism."-Jean Cocteau

When the home of Dr. Chaleck is robbed and the corpse of a woman found crushed to death, Inspector Juve pursues the gang leader Loupart in connection with the gruesome crime. He and the journalist Jerome Fandor relentlessly pursue suspects, narrow escaping high-speed train wrecks, blazing infernos, and the diabolical snares of the Genius of Crime, Fantomas."From the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist."-Guillaume Apollinaire"Absurd and magnificent lyricism."-Jean Cocteau