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History, mystery, murder and magic accompany Nellie Bly – Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist – as she takes up a challenge by Jules Verne to beat the eighty days it took his fictional hero Phileas Fogg to race around the world. Nellie tackles the journey--alone, with a single change of clothes--against the wishes of her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, who felt it was “too dangerous for a woman to attempt.”
In her official account of the journey, Seventy-Two Days Around the World, Nellie leaves out one riveting event: a mysterious death. In the bustling harbor city of Port Said, she witnesses an event that makes her a target for a killer and involves her in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.
On board the ships that take Nellie from the Land of the Pharaohs to the exotic Orient and across the Pacific are the most famous magicians in the world... but a killer also stalks the decks. As magicians conjure the fantasy and a spiritualist raises the dead, Nellie wonders if Mr. Pulitzer had underestimated the danger.
- Sales Rank: #1958985 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-12
- Released on: 2011-04-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.54" h x 1.29" w x 6.47" l, 1.16 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
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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Praise for The Alchemy of Murder
“What a fabulous debut!”
--Brenda Novak, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand novels
"Doing for the City of Light what Ann Perry has done for Victorian London and what The Alienist did for 19th century New York, Carol McCleary has written a gripping, atmospheric, electrifying masterwork!"
--Barbara Woods, international bestselling writer, and author of The Blessing Stone
“Feisty, funny, opinionated, persistent, Nellie Bly’s as tough as any male she meets. A tale of peril and pursuit that is sure to keep you turning pages long after you should have been asleep. Dazzling entertainment, so well constructed you'll re-read it after you’re done!”
--William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Constitution
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. She is currently working on her next Nellie Bly novel.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Around the World in 72 Days
By Harriet Klausner
In 1889, Nellie Bly begins her quest circumnavigate the world in under eighty days. Two weeks into her quest, Bly is in Port Said, Egypt where she witnesses a homicide. Before the victim dies, he talks briefly to Bly.
She wonders if the deceased was English as she sets out to leave Egypt. Bly and her mostly British retinue continue the trek into Asia, but more murders follow. She begins to wonder if her aristocratic companions are the cause for the rash of homicides that plague her expedition and decides to use her journalist investigative skills to solve the murders.
Based on Nellie Bly's true account of her Around the World in 72 Days, The Illusion of Murder is a terrific thriller as the intrepid journalist uses her investigative skills to try to solve homicides plaguing the adventure. Nellie makes her second historical whodunit (see The Alchemy of Murder) work. The sleuth reporter is brave but not a modern day super female warrior as part of her psyche remains anchored in the Victorian age. Readers will enjoy traveling the globe with Nellie as she ends up in one hot pot of stew after another while trying to break Phineas Fogg's record as recorded by Jules Verne.
Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Were there editors?
By K. Boyne
The series concept with historical figure Nellie Bly encountering various mysteries promises to be interesting. My comments have more to do with the apparent editing of this book than anything else. I find it jarring to come across numerous typographical and grammatical errors and, worse, bits of dialogue that would NOT have been spoken by anyone in the late 19th century. There is always a difficult balancing act when authors tackle historical fiction -- if the verisimilitude is too great, modern readers might not be able to understand (and perhaps would not buy) the books. They may find the characters not particularly likeable due to accurate, if now unacceptable, attitudes. When, however, even those characters cast as "exceptional" for their times, demonstrate utterly modern sensibilities and use 20th/21st century colloguialisms, it makes me feel that the author either didn't do his or her homework, or else has very little sensitivity to historical context. I think this is a fairly glaring problem with The Illusion of Murder, even though the story is entertaining.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A review from Bookworm1858
By bookworm1858
I read the first book The Alchemy of Murder last year and enjoyed it enough to pick up this second book when I happened to spot it at my library. This one focus on Nellie's famous journey around the world trying to best the record set by Jules Verne's characters in Around the World in 80 Days. So many people thought a woman couldn't handle it but that only fuels Nellie's determination to see it through. No matter the difficulties, Nellie will make it around the world and write a story about it.
This is challenged when Nellie witnesses what she is convinced is a murder in Egypt. Her companions try to convince her otherwise and ask for discretion as they are British citizens worried about the powder keg that is Egypt during that time. As they continue on their journey, Nellie pushes her theory, putting herself into danger and learning more about the larger plot.
I do like Nellie, a brave and daring woman who bristles at the suggestion that she might not be able to do something simply because she is a woman. But I really had trouble sympathizing with her quest to prove that a murder had occurred and to prod the people around her to do something about it. The situation seemed like Nellie was grasping at straws and using her imagination to provide conflict for the book; I didn't believe Nellie either although I knew that she had to be right about a murder or else the novel would be pointless. I just felt like she made some big leaps in her deductions that were not supportable.
Also I found most of the novel really slow. Even though Nellie travels eastward from Egypt to New York over the course of the book, I didn't really think it picked up until she was back in the States and racing an unknown competitor along with getting to the heart of the mystery. When everyone is together on a train for the conclusion, I could not turn the pages fast enough! The denouement was a bit muddled for me but I was also reading really fast.
On a historical note, it seems so bizarre to me that a journey around the world could take months; now you could take a plane over the course of a day. Just goes to show how much things can change in just about a century! And like the previous novel, we have some visits from famous personages although I cannot reveal their identity as it was a nice surprise for me to see them in the book.
Overall: Slow beginning with improbable leaps in logic by the main character was my main impression but the ending did tie everything together. This is a lighter mystery with lots of character and historical details for the careful reader to savor.
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