The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, Valerie Martin
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, Valerie Martin
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The Ghost of the Mary Celeste

Author: Valerie Martin

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2014

Synopsis

In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly between sought-after Philadelphia spiritualist medium Violet Petra and a journalist named Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud. These three elements - a ship found sailing without a crew, a famous writer on the verge of enormous success, and the rise of an unorthodox and heretical religious fervor - converge in unexpected ways.

About Valerie Martin

Valerie Martin is the author of nine novels, including Trespass, Italian Fever, The Great Divorce, Mary Reilly, and the 2003 Orange Prize-winning Property and of three collections of short fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tanja on March 05, 2014

This is by no means the worst book I have read, but it is definitely one of the biggest disappointments in a long time. I was hoping for a titillating historical-fiction mystery about the real-life vessel Mary Celeste, found floating on the sea without her crew. What I got was a fragmented and vapid......more

Goodreads review by Jill on March 27, 2015

Has there ever been a more compelling maritime mystery than the fate of the Mary Celeste? In 1872, it was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean – deserted, unmanned, yet seaworthy and with its cargo fully intact. Valerie Martin uses this mystery as a main plot device in her latest novel – a page-turn......more

Goodreads review by Ariel on February 26, 2014

I love the story of the Mary Celeste. I first read about it in a Reader's Digest anthology of mysteries and unexplained events that was on my parents shelf in the 70's. I read the article probably forty times. It was so captivating. A ship found with the crew missing and the only clue being blood on......more

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