Alexandre Dumas

“Betrayed on his wedding day and buried alive for fourteen years in the Château d'If, the young sailor Edmond Dantès escapes, finds a hidden treasure, and returns to Paris as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo to reward the good and destroy the three men who ruined him.”

“In 1625 a hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan, comes to Paris to join the King's Musketeers, befriends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and is drawn into the duel between Cardinal Richelieu and the Queen — and into the path of the deadly Milady.”

“In Holland in 1672, a peaceful tulip-grower is thrown into prison through a jealous neighbour and a political murder — and, with the help of his jailer's daughter, grows in his cell the black tulip that all Haarlem is waiting for.”