The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

For the first time in English in over a century a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumass The Three Musketeers continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844 Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel Twenty Years After that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later toward the end of his career Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins not twenty years later but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu Queen Anne and King Louis XIIIand introducing a charming new hero the Comte de Moret a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king queen and cardinal all vie for power and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy dangerand passionate romance! Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx all for serial publication but he never quite finished it and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book he had earlier written a separate novella The Dove that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time in one cohesive narrative The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storylinea rip-roaring novel of historical adventure heretofore unknown to English-language readers by the great Alexandre Dumas king of the swashbucklers.