The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice — and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club... especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished — and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!
As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends — and save the Empire? Find out in the final installment of the fantastic and memorable Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series.
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Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss is a Hungarian American writer of fantasy short stories. Her stories have been nominated for major awards: "Pip and the Fairies" for the Nebula Award in 2007, and "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm" was nominated for the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2004 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks." Her collection In the Forest of Forgetting was published in 2006 by Prime Books.
In 2008, her story "The Singing of Mount Abora" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The story was originally published in the spelling-bee inspired anthology Logorrhea.
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
