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After her parents die, Mary Jekyll is left penniless but driven by the mystery of her father’s past. A clue suggests that her father’s former friend and murderer, Edward Hyde, may still be at large. A bounty for locating Hyde offers Mary a chance to solve her immediate financial troubles. While searching, she discovers Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child raised by nuns, and gathers allies among twelve women created by nightmarish experiments: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein, among others. With the help of the detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. Watson, Mary delves into the world of secret societies of ruthless scientists. The investigation confronts her with the horrors of their past experiments, forcing an ultimate battle against monstrous creations.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Theodora Goss
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