THE ALCHEMY OF MURDER

Paris 1889. The Alchemist is how I've come to think of him; he has apassion for the dark side of knowledge, mixing murder and madness withscience. Nellie Bly -- reporter, feminist and amateur detective -- is inParis on the trail of an enigmatic killer. The city is a dangerous place:an epidemic of Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow thegovernment and a murderer preys on the prostitutes who haunt the streetsof Montmartre. But it is also a city of culture, a magnet for artists andmen of science and letters. Can the combined genius of Oscar Wilde, JulesVerne and Louis Pasteur help Nellie prove a match for Jack the Ripper?