The Man With the Black Feather (1909) is a novel by French writer
Gaston Leroux. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction
after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, has become
legendary through several adaptations for film, theater, and
television, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated 1886
Broadway musical of the same name. Walking into his office one
morning, a journalist discovers a stranger waiting there for him.
Holding an ornate wooden box, he reveals himself to be the executor
of M. Theophraste Longuet, a deceased manufacturer and a former
acquaintance of the journalist. Suspicious at first, the journalist
accepts the box, opening it to reveal the voluminous memoirs of
Longuet. Within their pages, presumably unread by anyone else,
Longuet describes his discovery of documents revealing that he is,
in fact, the reincarnation of infamous French highwayman Louis
Dominique Cartouche, a vigilante figure who haunted the roads of
18th century France in order to steal from the rich and give their
wealth to the poor. Skeptical, the journalist reads the memoirs,
which lead him to the legendary "Treasure of Cartouche," virtually
ensuring the accuracy of Longuet's claims. Assured of their worth
to the public, the journalist convinces his editors to release
their discovery to the world. The Man With the Black Feather, which
is also known by the title The Double Life, is a mystery novel by
Gaston Leroux, one of the leading French detective writers of his
generation. Like much of Leroux's work, the novel is partly based
on historical events-Cartouche was an actual figure whose campaign
of thievery and charity came to an abrupt end with his brutal
public execution in 1721. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Gaston Leroux's
The Man With the Black Feather is a classic of French literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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