"fun swashbuckling historical mystery"
In 1625 in a Paris tavern, Athos duels with a child
D'Artagnan while the other two Musketeers, Portos and
Aramis watch when their rivals, five of the Cardinal's
Guards arrive. Their leader Jussac wants to arrest the
Three Musketeers for breaking the Cardinal's ban on public
dueling, but having faced humiliation earlier, the trio
agrees to die here. They tell D'Artagnan to leave, but he
refuses claiming in his heart he is the fourth musketeer. They defeat their opponents and go off to celebrate only
to see another musketeer who runs from them. They give
chase, but when they catch up to him in an alley, they
find him dead. However, when they look closer at the
corpse, they realize the murdered victim is a she who
looks extremely like Anne, the Queen of France. They
debate what to do because if the deceased was killed
because she is the Queen's double, then they need to
uncover who committed treason; if she died because she was
in a bad place, then the gendarme should handle the case.
Deciding one for all and all for one and agreeing
D'Artagnan earned his musketeer status, they begin to
investigate who killed the queen's double? This is a fun swashbuckling historical mystery starring
the four musketeers of Dumas fame. The story line is
filled with action as the heroes investigate the homicide
while adhering to their original personalities. Though
the number of suspects remains a bit low, musketeers and
seventeenth century whodunit fans will enjoy this changing
of the guard from thriller to mystery while retaining the
heroic got your back essence of one for all and all for
one brotherhood. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 5, 2006
SummaryA 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.
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