The sinister mystery of the mesmerizing girl

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice-and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. Life's always an adventure for the Athena Club...especi...

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Main Author: Goss, Theodora (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Saga Press, [2019]
Edition:First Edition.
Series:Goss, Theodora. Extraordinary adventures of the Athena Club ; 3.
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Summary:Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice-and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. Life's always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucinda van Helsing, Mary Jekyll and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished- and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes! As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock's kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends-and save the Empire? Find out in the final installment of the fantastic and memorable Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series.
Physical Description:436 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9781534427877
1534427872
Author Notes:Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of many publications, including the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting ; Interfictions , a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland , a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom , a novella in a two-sided accordion format; and the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia ; and the novels, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter , European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman , and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl . She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and her work has been translated into eleven languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at TheodoraGoss.com.