The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

By: Valerie Martin

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Hardcover | 20 February 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Was it possible that the book he had before him was an original document, squirreled away for sixteen years? Or was it simply another hoax, the desperate ploy of a poor, ambitious young writer, just as he had been, who schemed, just as he had schemed, to captivate the fickle attention of the public by tying a painter to the taffrail of a famous mystery ship?
A ghost ship appears in the mist.
To a struggling author called Arthur Conan Doyle, it is an inspiration.
To Violet Petra, the most infamous mystic of her age, it is a reminder.
To the death-obsessed Victorian public, it is a preoccupation.
And to one family, tied to the sea for generations, it is a tragedy.
In salons and rough seas, s ances and the mind of a genius, Valerie Martin looks behind the myth and brings an extraordinary story to life. Engrossing and mesmerising, intricate and endlessly intriguing, THE GHOST OF THE MARY CELESTE is an examination of love, nature and the fictions that pass as truth.

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A sly and masterly historical novel, a page-turner written with intelligence and flair... Through her ingenious weaving of fiction and fact, she both 'solves' the mystery and (as one of her characters says) deepens it ... Valerie Martin never sacrifices the richness of her novel for easy answers. She's more interested in the questions. And so, then, are we. - New York Times Book Review

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