This was the last name of the writer who wrote about a (*) courtesan who wears a white flower when she is open for business and who inspired Verdi's La Traviata.
A novel by an author with this surname begins at an estate auction where the narrator buys a deceased woman's copy of Manon Lescaut. A different author with this surname created a former nun who has an affair with a priest while stealing communion plates and later kills a woman with poisoned wine at a convent. This was the last name of the writer who wrote about a (*) courtesan who wears a white flower when she is open for business and who inspired Verdi's La Traviata. The author of The Lady of the Camellias has this surname, as does the author of a novel in which a woman is recognized as a felon because of a branded fleur-de-lis. For 10 points, give this surname of the author who wrote about the pursuit of Milady de Winter by d'Artagnan and Athos in The Three Musketeers.
A novel by an author with this surname begins at an estate auction where the narrator buys a deceased woman's copy of Manon Lescaut.
Dumas [or Alexandre Dumas, pere; or Alexandre Dumas, fils]