The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (Vintage Contemporaries) by Valerie Martin Paperback Book

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Rent The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (Vintage Contemporaries)

Author: Valerie Martin

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books

Published: Jan 2015

Genre: Fiction - Historical - General

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 320

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1872: the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste is discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo is intact and there is no sign of struggle, but her crew has disappeared, never to be found.
        As news of the derelict ghost ship spreads, the Mary Celeste captures imaginations around the world—from a Philadelphia spiritualist medium named Violet Petra to an unknown young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle. In a haunted, death-obsessed age, the Mary Celeste is by turns a provocative mystery, an inspiration to creativity, and the tragic story of a family doomed by the sea. Based on actual events, spanning seas and continents, life and death, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass as truth.

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