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The Last Musketeer

by Stuart Gibbs

Release: September 2011
Format: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

While chasing the cad who stole his family’s prized black crystal, young Greg Rich ends up back in AD 1615 where he and three future Musketeers must save Greg’s parents from Dominic Richelieu (the cardinal’s evil brother) and the deadly prison known as La Mort.

— Michael Main

When joined as a whole, the Devil’s Stone was rumored to perform many miracles: strike people dead in an instant, turn lead into gold, even open portals in time.

DEBUT

The Last Musketeer (HarperCollins, September 2011) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1600 to 1699: AD 1615
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period

Time Travel Methods

Magic Time Travel
Time Portal: [. . .] even open portals in time.
Time Talismans: the Devil’s Stone

Themes

Long Life: Dinicoeur/Dominic lives for centuries.
Save Your Family!
Technology and Science from the Future: Greg’s matches and probably other things that I’m not recalling
Traveler Becomes Historical Figure: Greg is in fact d’Artagnan

Fictional Tags

Metafictional Reality: the world of the young Three Musketeers

Groupings

The Last Musketeer (story series): Book 1

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the Louvre, Paris, circa 2011 ⋙ to AD 1615. Note: Greg’s parents follow Dinicoeur, and Greg jumps after them all.