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Item Details
| Title:
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THE ALCHEMY OF MURDER
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| By: |
Carol McCleary |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£0.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0340978414 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780340978412 |
| Publisher: |
HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
With a feisty heroine at its heart, this novel is based on real-life character Nellie Bly, America's first female investigative reporter who became famous for her flamboyant style and her record-breaking trip around the world |
| Synopsis: |
Paris 1889. 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? |
| Illustrations: |
12 b&w line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Hodder Paperback |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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