Nellie Bly

Victorian Age detective, investigative reporter, and feminist Nellie Bly teams up with the likes of Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, and microbe-hunter, Louis Pasteur, to solve the greatest mysteries of the century. In Carol McCleary’s The Alchemy of Murder, the first book in this thrilling, historical series, the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris takes center stage as Nellie must stop a killer stalking the streets and slow down a plague that’s threatening to overrun the entire city. “Exciting… For all the action, the book’s main draw remains Nellie–brash, confrontational, decisive, and even romantic.” (Publishers Weekly on The Formula for Murder).