Hard cover, 192 pp., 2007

The most successful series of pulp detective novels in the history of French fiction.
The most popular Western film to be shown in the Soviet Union.
A century ago, their hero, the elusive criminal Fantômas, held the French capital paralysed with fear. In between the two World Wars, together with the Surrealists, Fantômas succeeded in erasing the boundaries between truth and fiction. In the 1960s, a series of outstanding comedy films turned the arch-villain into an icon of mass culture.
The first Russian book on Fantômas, The F Sign is also one of the most comprehensive studies into the portrayal of the master criminal in cinema and literature.

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