Introduction
The contents of these volumes of \'Celebrated Crimes\', as well as the
motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of
stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas,
pere, when he was not "the elder," nor yet the author of D\'Artagnan or
Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a lion in the literary
set and world of fashion.