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The Illusion of Murder

Nellie Bly (Volume 2)

Author: Carol McCleary

The Illusion of Murder

The Illusion of Murder

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The world's most famous reporter, the intrepid Nellie Bly, sets sail around the world on a dazzling adventure.

Page Count
352
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On Sale
04/12/2011

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History, mystery, murder and magic accompany Nellie Bly – Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist – as she takes up a challenge by Jules Verne to beat the eighty days it took his fictional hero Phileas Fogg to race around the world. Nellie tackles the journey--alone, with a single change of clothes--against the wishes of her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, who felt it was "too dangerous for a woman to attempt."

In her official account of the journey, Seventy-Two Days Around the World, Nellie leaves out one riveting event: a mysterious death. In the bustling harbor city of Port Said, she witnesses an event that makes her a target for a killer and involves her in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.

On board the ships that take Nellie from the Land of the Pharaohs to the exotic Orient and across the Pacific are the most famous magicians in the world... but a killer also stalks the decks. As magicians conjure the fantasy and a spiritualist raises the dead, Nellie wonders if Mr. Pulitzer had underestimated the danger.



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Imprint Publisher

Forge Books

ISBN

9781429960700

In The News

"A jaunty roman à clef studded with footnotes and vintage photographs and drawings. Bly's second caper breezily avoids a sophomore slump." - Kirkus Reviews

"Feministas take note —Nellie Bly still rocks and McCleary knows how to twist the factual and the fanciful in equal measure to keep readers up late and women rooting." - RT Book Reviews

"A rattling good read and a gripping romp." - Reviewing the Evidence

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The Illusion of Murder

The Illusion of Murder

$12.99

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