The Illusion of Murder (Nellie Bly) - Softcover

McCleary, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765361760 ISBN 13: 9780765361769

Publisher: Forge Books, 2012

Synopsis

The intrepid Nellie Bly—Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist—embarks on an adventure that will test her courage and determine the fate of nations...

 

Jules Verne challenges Nellie to travel around the world in less than the eighty days it took his fictional hero. Nellie knows she has what it takes, even if her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, thinks the journey is far too dangerous for any woman to attempt.

 

But when Nellie witnesses a tragic murder and is drawn into a mystifying web of international intrigue, she realizes that she may indeed be in over her head. As Nellie sails from the Land of the Pharaohs to the exotic Orient and across the Pacific, a killer follows. It will take every ounce of Nellie Bly’s charm and boundless determination to circumnavigate the globe, find a murderer, and stay alive.

About this title

About the Author:

CAROL MCCLEARY was born in Seoul, Korea, and lived in Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippines. She now lives on Cape Cod in an antique house that is haunted by ghosts. McCleary is the author of The Alchemy of Murder and The Illusion of Murder. She is currently working on her third Nellie Bly novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

McCleary transforms real-life crusading reporter Nellie Bly into an easily flustered ditz in the sequel to 2010's The Alchemy of Murder. In 1889, as actually happened, Nellie sets out to beat the round-the-world record of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Two weeks into her trip, Bly is horrified to witness a fatal stabbing in Port Said and hears the dying man's last words. Despite her conviction that the victim was English, her traveling companions insist that she's mistaken. The killing may be connected with an effort to drive the British out of Egypt through acts of terror. Bly's escapades continue as she moves on to Asia and the U.S., but her reactions to what befalls her are more in keeping with an out-of-her-depth neophyte than the accomplished and independent woman who successfully faked madness to go undercover at a New York City insane asylum. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0765361760
• ISBN 13: 9780765361769
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496