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The Alchemy of Murder - Signed, Lined

The Alchemy of Murder - Signed, Lined

by Carol McCleary

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

Genre: Crime

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  • First Printing
  • Hardcover


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About the book

Paris, 1889.

The World's Fair.
The Alchemist is how I've come to think of him; he has a passion for the dark side of knowledge, mixing murder and madness with science.
Nellie Bly - reporter, feminist and amateur detective - is in Paris on the trail of an enigmatic killer.
The city is a dangerous place: an epidemic of Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow the government and a murderer preys on the prostitutes who haunt the streets of Montmartre.
But it is also a city of culture, a magnet for artists and men of science and letters. Can the combined genius of Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne and Louis Pasteur help Nellie prove a match for Jack the Ripper?

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About the Author

Carol McCleary

Carol McCleary was born in Seoul, Korea and lived in Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines before settling in the USA.


She now lives on Cape Cod in an antique house that is haunted by ghosts.


Her books include the Nellie Bly series (The Alchemy of Murder, The Illusion of Murder and The Formula for Murder), and No Job For ALady.

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