The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Audiobook (Free)
- Kate Reading
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2017-06-20
Summary:
2018 Audie Award Finalist
Winner from the 2018 Audie Award for Fantasy
Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable band of women who get together to solve the mystery of some gruesome murders-and the bigger mystery of their personal origins.
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is interested in the secrets of her father’s strange past. One clue in particular ideas that Edward Hyde, her father’s former about The Unusual Case of the Alchemist’s Child friend and a murderer, could be nearby, and there’s a incentive for information leading to his capture…a incentive that would solve most of her immediate monetary woes.
But her hunt network marketing leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child remaining to be elevated by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary proceeds her search for the elusive Hyde, and quickly befriends more women, most of whom have been developed through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.
When their investigations cause them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their earlier return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.
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