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The Alchemy of Murder

By - Carol McCleary
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2009
ISBN 10 - 0340978414
ISBN 13 - 9780340978412
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - France--Paris
Shelf No - 6
Call Number - 813.6 MCC
Physical Description - x, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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?

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