Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail is a popular French writer, famous for his detective-adventure novels about the robber Rocambole. This is the first book in the famous series “The Complete Adventures of Rocambole,” which includes two adventurous novels: they feature noble heroes, proud beauties , inveterate swindlers and insidious villains. The rapidity of events, the intensity of passions, kidnappings and duels, secrets, fatal love - all this gives the author’s narration a special poignancy.