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Franz and Albert arrive in Rome for the big celebration and the innkeeper at first advises them to avoid the coliseum, which is the top tourist site, at night. Albert scoffs at the advice and the innkeeper Pastrini tells a long story about how the top outlaw got his rank. Franz is surprised to hear the outlaw knows Sinbad the Sailor. Albert ignores the story and the warnings.

Franz and Albert Montcerf take a sightseeing trip to Rome and decide to risk being attacked by brigands by taking a risky path outside the city...

Publication The Count of Monte Cristo was originally published in the Journal des Débats in eighteen parts. Serialization ran from 28 August 1844 to 15 January 1846. The first edition in book form was published in Paris by Pétion in 18 volumes with the first two issued in 1844 and the remaining sixteen in 1845.[11] Most of the Belgian pirated editions, the first Paris edition and many others up to the Lécrivain et Toubon illustrated edition of 1860 feature a misspelling of the title with "Christo" used instead of "Cristo". The first edition to feature the correct spelling was the L'Écho des Feuilletons illustrated edition, Paris 1846. This edition featured plates by Paul Gavarni and Tony Johannot and was said to be "revised" and "corrected", although only the chapter structure appears to have been altered with an additional chapter entitled La Maison des Allées de Meilhan having been created by splitting Le Départ into two.[12] Front page of translation into Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, 1889 English translations The first appearance of The Count of Monte Cristo in English was the first part of a serialization by W. Harrison Ainsworth in volume VII of Ainsworth's Magazine published in 1845, although this was an abridged summary of the first part of the novel only and was entitled The Prisoner of If. Ainsworth translated the remaining chapters of the novel, again in abridged form, and issued these in volumes VIII and IX of the magazine in 1845 and 1846 respectively.[12] Another abridged serialization appeared in The London Journal between 1846 and 1847. The first single volume translation in English was an abridged edition with woodcuts published by Geo Pierce in January 1846 entitled The Prisoner of If or The Revenge of Monte Christo.[12] In April 1846, volume three of the Parlour Novelist, Belfast, Ireland: Simms and M'Intyre, London: W S Orr and Company, featured the first part of an unabridged translation of the novel by Emma Hardy. The remaining two parts would be issued as the Count of Monte Christo volumes I and II in volumes 8 and 9 of the Parlour Novelist respectively.[12] The most common English translation is an anonymous one originally published in 1846 by Chapman and Hall. This was originally released in ten weekly installments from March 1846 with six pages of letterpress and two illustrations by M Valentin.[13] The translation was released in book form with all twenty illustrations in two volumes in May 1846, a month after the release of the first part of the above-mentioned translation by Emma Hardy.[12] The translation follows the revised French edition of 1846, with the correct spelling of "Cristo" and the extra chapter The House on the Allées de Meilhan. Most English editions of the novel follow the anonymous translation. In 1889, two of the major American publishers Little Brown and T.Y. Crowell updated the translation, correcting mistakes and revising the text to reflect the original serialized version. This resulted in the removal of the chapter The House on the Allées de Meilhan, with the text restored to the end of the chapter called The Departure.[14][15]

A young, adventurous Baron named Franz DiPinay ventures onto the island of Monte Cristo when the boat he had hired to take him elsewhere comes ashore after spotting a campfire on the beach. Franz becomes the first to be entangled in the intricate web of revenge that Dantes has planned-

Reception and legacy The original work was published in serial form in the Journal des Débats in 1844. Carlos Javier Villafane Mercado described the effect in Europe: The effect of the serials, which held vast audiences enthralled ... is unlike any experience of reading we are likely to have known ourselves, maybe something like that of a particularly gripping television series. Day after day, at breakfast or at work or on the street, people talked of little else. . The Montecristo Cuban cigar brand is allegedly named after the fondness of cigar rollers for listening to the novel read by a lector during their work. George Saintsbury stated that "Monte Cristo is said to have been at its first appearance, and for some time subsequently, the most popular book in Europe. Perhaps no novel within a given number of years had so many readers and penetrated into so many different countries."[19] This popularity has extended into modern times as well. The book was "translated into virtually all modern languages and has never been out of print in most of them. There have been at least twenty-nine motion pictures based on it ... as well as several television series, and many movies [have] worked the name 'Monte Cristo' into their titles."[ The title Monte Cristo lives on in a "famous gold mine, a line of luxury Cuban cigars, a sandwich, and any number of bars and casinos—it even lurks in the name of the street-corner hustle three-card monte." Modern Russian writer and philologist Vadim Nikolayev determined The Count of Monte-Cristo as a megapolyphonic novel The novel has been the inspiration for many other books, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur (1880),[22] then to a science fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination,[23] and to Stephen Fry's The Stars' Tennis Balls (entitled Revenge in the U.S.) Fantasy novelist Steven Brust's Khaavren Romances series have all used Dumas novels (particularly the Three Musketeers series) as their chief inspiration, recasting the plots of those novels to fit within Brust's established world of Dragaera His 2020 novel The Baron of Magister Valley follows suit, using The Count of Monte Cristo as a starting point ] Jin Yong has admitted some influence from Dumas, his favorite non-Chinese novelist.[28] Some commentators feel that the plot of A Deadly Secret resembles The Count of Monte Cristo, except that they are based in different countries and historical periods.

Background to elements of the plot A short novel titled Georges by Dumas was published in 1843, before The Count of Monte Cristo was written. This novel is of particular interest to scholars because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices in The Count of Monte Cristo.[5] Dumas wrote that the germ of the idea of revenge as one theme in his novel The Count of Monte Cristo came from an anecdote (Le Diamant et la Vengeance[6]) published in a memoir of incidents in France in 1838, written by an archivist of the Paris police.[7][8] The archivist was Jacques Peuchet, and the multi-volume book was called Memoirs from the Archives of the Paris Police in English.[9] Dumas included this essay in one of the editions of his novel published in 1846.[10] Peuchet related the tale of a shoemaker, Pierre Picaud, living in Nîmes in 1807, who was engaged to marry a rich woman when three jealous friends falsely accused him of being a spy on behalf of England in a period of wars between France and England. Picaud was placed under a form of house arrest in the Fenestrelle Fort, where he served as a servant to a rich Italian cleric. When the cleric died, he left his fortune to Picaud, whom he had begun to treat as a son. Picaud then spent years plotting his revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune. He stabbed the first with a dagger on which the words "Number One" were printed, and then he poisoned the second. The third man's son he lured into crime and his daughter into prostitution, finally stabbing the man himself. This third man, named Loupian, had married Picaud's fiancée while Picaud was under arrest.[6] In another of the true stories reported by Ashton-Wolfe, Peuchet describes a poisoning in a family.[10] This story is also mentioned in the Pléiade edition of this novel,[8] and it probably served as a model for the chapter of the murders inside the Villefort family. The introduction to the Pléiade edition mentions other sources from real life: a man named Abbé Faria existed, was imprisoned but did not die in prison; he died in 1819 and left no large legacy to anyone.[8] As for Dantès, his fate is quite different from his model in Peuchet's book, since that model is murdered by the "Caderousse" of the plot.

An Englishman from a firm to which Morell owes money stops by for a long talk with Morrell...who is awaiting news of his ship.

The innkeeper takes time to give the traveller answers regarding persons of the past whom he knew well....

A solitary priest approaches a small empty tavern near the banks of a river and inquires of the owner, who name we know. Our website: www.bestof1001stories.com

Dantes visits the old home of his father and also searches Catalan for Mercedes

This is one chapter we've all been waiting for....

Dante's ship mates decide on taking a one day rest for repairs at the Island of Monte Cristo, which gives Dantes and excuse to look around without being suspected.

Dantes gets closer to his goalof being able to explore the Island of Monte Cristo

Dantes takes a big chance

Dantes's dungeon mate suffers his third attack and he tries to save him but has no success. He overhears the jailer say they will remove the body that night. Dantes has a plan.

The old man, now fully trusting Dantes, reveals the size and location of the treasure which had been bequesthed to him by the last living member of the wealthy Spada family for which he had worked. Dantes is finally convinced the abbe is not mad. Enjoy great literature with my narration at these two podcasts: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Our website: www.bestof1001stories.com

The Abbe shows Dantes how he keeps time without a watch, how he writes his manuscripts using ink and pens he has created, and many other useful things. When Dantes asks if the Abbe can help him solve how it was that he (Dantes) ended up in prison the Abbe, through a seies of questions and answers,implicates Danglers and Villaforte in their crimes- and for the first time Dantes realizes how he has been duped. He vows revenge.

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Dantes finally meets Abbe Faria,a political agitator who has been imprisoned for his beliefs, who tells Dante he has been digging a tunnel to freedom, and Dante is impressed by his intellect and industriousness, as he has tunneled 50 feet through stone and mortar, his hope being to end at the castle wall over the water- but instead ending at Dantes chamber. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001 Sherlodck Holmes Stories & the Best of Arthur Conan Doyle Sun 12 pm ET, Best Of Wed 5pm 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Sun 12 pm ET, Wed best of 5:00 pm ET 1001 Stories From The Old West Sun 12 noon ET, Wed 5pm ET 1001 Stories For The Road (current- The Count of Monte Cristo 1001 Radio Days Best of Old Time Radio Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft 12 noon ET 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Women Writers Short Stories 12noon Sun 1001 True Crime From Another Time Haunting True Crime Stories 12 noon Sun ET 1001 Best of Jack London Sun 12 noon ET 1001 History's Best Storytellers Sun 12 noon ET 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Sun 12noon ET, Best of Fridays 1AM ET

Dantes hears digging on the wall by his bed and feverishly tries to make contact with who he hopes is not a workman or a guard. He has now been in prison 6 years. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001 Sherlodck Holmes Stories & the Best of Arthur Conan Doyle Sun 12 pm ET, Best Of Wed 5pm 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Sun 12 pm ET, Wed best of 5:00 pm ET 1001 Stories From The Old West Sun 12 noon ET, Wed 5pm ET 1001 Stories For The Road (current- The Count of Monte Cristo 1001 Radio Days Best of Old Time Radio Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1 001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft 12 noon ET 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Women Writers Short Stories 12noon Sun 1001 True Crime From Another Time Haunting True Crime Stories 12 noon Sun ET 1001 Best of Jack London Sun 12 noon ET 1001 History's Best Storytellers Sun 12 noon ET 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Sun 12noon ET, Best of Fridays 1AM ET

The commissionerarrives for his first and only visit and Dante begs for a trial and to find out what he has been accused of. An old man named Abbe Faria is also in a cell near Dantes, and he promises 6 million in riches to the commissioner if he will release him. Leter in the story he willbefriend Dantes.

After Napolean is back in power Morell intercedes on Dantes behalf trying to get a release, but he is met with lies from Villafort. Danglers, hearing that Napolean is free, fears retribution from Dantes and flees to Spain. After 100 days, Napolean is dfeated at Waterloo and Louis XVIII retakes the throne.

Villafort, after being surprised by the presence of his hunted father in his hotel room, is told thyat Napolean is well on his way to becoming emporer again, and asks Villafort to tell the king its time to quiety abdicate the throne and he will not be pursued. Villafort watches as his father changes his clothes and appearance before leaving.

Villafort gets his time with Louis XVIII and pours out his story of Dantes's supposed crime only to find out that Napolean has actually entered France and that he, Villaforte, is the first to have warned the King. In his gratitude, the King awards Villafort for his loyalty. A surprise awaits Villafort back at his hotel.

Villafort finally reaches the King, but nor before the King's guard, who, after receiving Villafort, runs to the king first warn him of the Bonapartist plot for his own perceived advancement. The King then accepts Villafort, and plays down the warning while promising Villafort he is grateful for the warning, knowing that Villafort would turn in his own father if he thought there wsas profit in it. Check out www.bestof1001stories.com for all 12 1001 podcasts and easy review capablity.

Villafort leaves his wife on the evening of his marriage to take a message to the King that there is a plot against him, hoping that he will endear himself to the king and thus rise in stature as a result. His conscience bothers him somewhat as he knows he is condemning innocent Dantes to a sure death but not so much that he backs off his evil deed. Mercedes stops him briefly to inquire of the fate of Dantes but he doesnt give her the time of day. Reviews appreciated at Apple or www.bestof1001stories.com.

Dantes is escorted out of Villaforte's office and placed on a small boat with gendarmes who inform him that he is headed for an island prison. When the reality hits him that Villaforte has deceived him he tries to jump overboard. Check out all our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com

Dantes is questioned by Villaforte and at one point he seems to sympathize with Dantes, even promising to set him free. But just before he dismisses him,Villaforte reads to letter that was entrusted to Dantes by his dying captain.....

We are introduced to Villafort (the young judge who will question Dantes) and note that his father Nortier was hung as a Bonapartist traitor and that his bride to be wants him to be fair in his scheduled trials where he willdecide life and death

In chapter five we have a pre-wedding dinner at which the friends of Dantes gather to cerlebrate his marriage to Mercedes. The evil Danglers and his dupe, the jealous Fernand are there as well as the police come to arrest Dantes. Check out www.bestof1001stories.com where its easy to read and leave reviews for all 12 of our 1001 shows!

Chapter 3: The Catalans Dante visits Mercedes and finds her in the company of Fernand Mondego, who loves her and leaves in a rage after she embraces Dantes passionately. Soon after,Fernand meets Danglars and Catarousse, and Danglers says he has a plan to get dantes out of the way. Chapter 4: Danglersshares his plan to have Dantes imprisoned and launches his plan by drafting a letter written in his left hand that appears to implicate Dantes in a crime. Catch all our shows now at www.beswtof1001stories.com. Search is now available in all shows.

The story of the Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most popular adventure novels ever writte, and deals with the way in which an innocent young man deals with a terrible injustice created for him by other men who were jealous of his achievements and his love for a Catalan woman who he intended to marry. His pursuit for revenge against those who wronged him raises moral questions about the consequences of vengeance and its impact on both the avenger and his targets.It is copunted in the top 100 of all the novels ever written. REVIEWS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED- AND EASY AND QUICK AT WWW.BEWSTOF1001STORIES.COM

We are leaving the story as our trio relates their last chapter. They have spent their last two days on the river soaking wet, miserable, starved and dejected, although our narrator still finds humor in their situation and it appears Montmorency had a great day at their last landing finding fights with other dogs. All in all, its a fun story, but one which rambles through some memories as their rickety boat flaots down and sometimes is rowed upriver. Coming next: Either action or mystery! I'm working on it.

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Dr. Jekyll's butler becomes alarmed at the recent actions of his master, who has been terrifying the staff at his hime, and asks the attorney for help. They enter the home and decide to tear down the locked door to the study.

A maid witness a violet murder outside her window and identifies Mr. Hyde.

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Markham closes in on the guilty party, who confesses. Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com to catch all 12 podcasts and to leave reviews.

Vance tries to convince Markham that he knows who killed the Canary- but Markham believes the suspect has a rock solid alibi. The girl's voice was heard after the susopect had been seen leaving the buildinbg that night. Vance persuades Marhma to take one last look at the Canary's apartment with him and Markham agrees.

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Sgt. Heath comes up with what he believes is a solid case against one of phone operators in Ms. O'Dell's bldg- but runs into resistance when Vance says it is a good theory- but the wrong guy, and the wrong method. Then they demand he show them what he means.

Vance, Markham, and Sgt.Heath are amazed when, durimng a morning meeting. Skeel calls and says he knows who murdered the Canary- and he wants to talk tomorrow at 10am.

Markham and Vance grill "Pop" Cleaver when new evidence places him at the murder scene Monday evening at 11pm. New information comes to light. Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com and follow us and share at our new Twitter address which is @1001Stories.

Markham questions Dr. Linquist with interesting results, while Vance blows up Mannix's alibi by questioning his performer girlfriend. Follow our website at www.bestof1001stories.com

Vance manages to find Ms. O'Dell's best girl chum and she reveals a mountain of information about O'Dell's boyfriends.

Markham and Vance narrow the suspects down to 4 men- but more imnportantly, Vance changes Markham's thinking about the nature of the suspect. Vance believes that robbery was not the motive- murder was the motive- and that the killer had planned this all out carefully for a long time. He also believes that Skein was present, hiding in the closet, and saw the murder through the keyhole.