{"product_id":"the-alchemy-fire-murder-a-mary-wandwalker-mystery-paperback","title":"The Alchemy Fire Murder: a Mary Wandwalker Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Rowland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormer Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles. Given that the authentic artifact is needed for her Oxford college to survive, retrieving it is essential.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary agrees to get the real scroll back as part of a commission for her three-person Enquiry Agency. However, tragedy strikes in Los Angeles. Before Mary can legally obtain the scroll, a young man is murdered, and the treasure stolen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurder and theft are complicated by the disappearance in the UK of a witch mysteriously connected to the scroll. While Mary's colleague, Caroline, risks her sanity to go undercover in a dodgy mental hospital, her lover, Anna resorts to desperate measures. These, and Anna's silence over blackmail, threaten the survival of the Agency. Mary teams up with the victim's brother to track the killer, and the real alchemy scroll. Solving crimes on two continents will involve a rogue pharmaceutical corporation, Janet the witch, the Holywell Retreat Center near Oxford, plus the trafficked women they support, a graduate school in California, and a life-threatening mountain-consuming wildfire. Can these inexperienced detectives triumph over corrupt professors and racist attempts to rewrite history? Can they remake their fragile family? Will the extraordinary story of Robert Le More prove a source of hope for today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE: Oxford 1399, January, Prima Materia or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMother Julian's Gift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1: A Present Day Summons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2: St Julian's College has a problem \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3: Who Stole the Alchemy Scroll? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4: What has Been Split Must Be Reunited 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5: A Mixing of Bitter Substances \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6: Holywell's Vulnerable Clients \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7: Mary Takes Charge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8: Like Treats Like \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9: Two Brits in Snowbound Los Angeles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10: Strange Mixing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 11: Anna and Leni \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 12: Into Darkness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 13: An Awful Lot of Blood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 14: They Call Him Cookie Mac \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 15: Who's Looking for the Invisible College? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 16: Brother of the Victim \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 17: Pursuit of the Scroll and the Murderer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 18: Stew \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 19: Janet Holds the Key \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 20: Janet's Story \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 21: An Arsonist at The Old Hospital \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 22: The Fire Between Them \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 23: A Good meal Around the Fire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE ALCHEMY FIRE MURDER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 24: Miss Wandwalker on the Trail \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 25: The European History Foundation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 26: Mary and Sam \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 27: Flying Apart \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 28: Betrayal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 29: Anna with the Scroll \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 30: Over Water, Back to Earth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 31: Reunion at Holywell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 32: Pizza After the Storm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 33: A Phone call to St. Julian's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 34: Trouble at St. Julian's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 35: St. Julian's in Turmoil \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 36: Reading and Gardening \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 37: Letters Across the Atlantic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 38: In the Doldrums \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 39: Roberta Africanus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 40: Mercurius \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 41: Coagulation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 42: Mer-Corp \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 43: President of the Alchemy School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 44: Roberta Le More's Scroll \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 45: Land of the Fire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 46: Confronting Demons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 47: Fire in the Valley \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 48: Your host, Jez Wiseman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 49: Last Act in Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 50: A Question of Trust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42125087309959,"sku":"9781685031299","price":28.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ed1840ee17e14434e808d6effed2b0ef.webp?v=1732575002","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-alchemy-fire-murder-a-mary-wandwalker-mystery-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}