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SHADOW OF THE ALCHEMIST
WESTERSON, JERI
Once a Knight of the Realm, Crispin Guest was stripped of his title and his lands and must now earn his
meager living through his wits. With the help of his young apprentice, reformed thief Jack Tucker, Guest is
known to certain populations as The Tracker, the man who can find anything—for a price. It is for that
reason that Guest is sought out by Nicholas Flamel, an absent-minded alchemist. Both Flamel’s wife and
his apprentice are missing, and he wants Guest to find them and bring them home. Before he can even
begin looking, Guest discovers that Flamel’s house has been ransacked. Then Flamel’s assistant turns
up—dead, hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to his chest by a dagger. It is a ransom note that
promises the safe return of his wife in exchange for the Philosopher’s Stone, which is reputed to turn lead
into gold and create the elixir of life. And the kidnappers aren’t the only ones after it. From the highest
nobility to Flamel’s fellow alchemists, everyone is seeking the stone for themselves. Guest must rescue
the missing wife and find the stone before it falls into unworthy hands.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 20,000
MINOTAUR
304 PAGES
9781250000309
$29.99 HC
OCTOBER 2013
SHADOWS ON THE NILE
FURNIVALL, KATE
1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and
wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years
later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished
from her parents’ home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that
the two events must be related, she sets out on a quest to find Timothy. She plunges into a mysterious
world of séances and mystics, nebulous clues and Egyptian artifacts. With the help of a dashing and
impoverished aristocrat, Sir Montague Chamford, Jessie follows the trail into the alien, swirling sands of
the Egyptian desert. Amid the ancient intrigue and blistering heat, a powerful romance sparks between
Jessie and Monty. But they must first confront the demons of Jessie’s past—and reveal the secrets there.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
BERKLEY
448 PAGES
9780425265086
$16.00 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE WILL OF THE DEAD
MANN, GEORGE
A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's
Baker Street lodgings. Maugram's uncle is dead and his will has disappeared, leaving the man afraid that
he will be left penniless. Holmes agrees to take the case and he and Watson dig deep into the murky past
of this complex family.
MYSTERY
TITAN
9781781160015
$15.95 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2013
336 PAGES