History, Mystery, Science and Murder . . .

        Intrepid Nellie Bly, the world's first female crime reporter, follows a bloody trail of murder from a New York madhouse to a world's fair in Paris.

        As she untangles a web of puzzling murders and science gone mad, she finds herself in a hostile city, on the run from both the police and killers.

        Recruiting a reluctant Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, flamboyant Oscar Wilde, the prince of cafe society, and a doubtful Louis Pasteur, the great "microbe hunter," Nelllie focuses "high tech" Victorian Age science on a conspiracy that is both criminally ingenious and preternaturally evil.

 
"A wonderful evocation of Paris in the late 1880's . . . strong, smart, and believable . . . this is a book for everybody."  
             Barbara D'Amato, Mary Higgins Clark Award winner, past 
             president of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in 
             Crime International 

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