Death of a Musketeer by Sarah D'Almeida

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A new series that's all for one, murder for all.

Alexandre Dumas's Four Musketeers-the noble Athos, the cunning Aramis, the loyal Porthos, and sharp-witted D'Artagnan-now add murder and mystery to their ranks as swashbuckling sleuths in the court of King Louis XIII.

Publishers Weekly

Dumas fans eager for further details of the lives of his swashbuckling musketeer heroes may enjoy this first in a series of historical mystery novels that transforms those men of action and intrigue into the king's detectives. The concept is less far-fetched than it might seem; in one of Dumas's own sequels to The Three Musketeers, The Viscount of Bragelonne, D'Artagnan displays almost Holmesian powers of deduction. But D'Almeida has not yet realized the potential of her conceit. By choosing to wedge her plot into the midst of the well-known original--chronicling D'Artagnan's first adventure with Athos, Porthos and Aramis--she has constricted herself, making the central elements of her plot disappointingly familiar. The whodunit posed for her four heroes--a young woman who closely resembles the queen has been murdered by an unknown assailant--is not especially tricky due to a paucity of plausible suspects, and the colloquial language can jar. Nonetheless, the idea is interesting enough that both musketeer and mystery fans can hope for improvements in future entries. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Steve Forbes - Forbes Magazine

The Musketeers as Sherlock Holmes-ian detectives? In the capable hands of Sarah D'Almeida--nom de plume of Sarah Hoyt--the improbably plausible springs to fast-paced, adventurous life. The tale begins with Musketeer-wannabe D'Artagnan preparing himself to die in a duel with one of the legendary Musketeers over an alleged slight. The bout ends with the threesome becoming a foursome. The mystery begins when the four come across a dead woman who looks like the Queen of France and is dressed in a Musketeer uniform. (12 Mar 2007)

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