The alchemy of murder
By: by Carol McCleary
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780340978399; 9780340978412
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: 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.