# The Alchemy of Murder

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- Book: [The Alchemy of Murder](https://www.bookquiver.com/carol-mccleary/the-alchemy-of-murder) ([The Alchemy of Murder.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carol-mccleary/the-alchemy-of-murder.md))
- Authors: [Carol Mccleary](https://www.bookquiver.com/carol-mccleary)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-327-8
- Published: 2009-07-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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?