Martin, Valerie, 1948-

The ghost of the Mary Celeste [text (large print)] / Valerie Martin. - Large print edition - 418 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - - Charnwood .

In 1872 the American merchant vessel MARY CELESTE was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain; her crew were never found. A rather hard-up young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the ship and decides to write an outlandish short story about what took place. It causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly for sought-after Philadelphia psychic Violet Petra and skeptical journalist Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud. Then there is the family of the MARY CELESTE's captain, linked to the sea for generations and marked repeatedly by tragedy. In salons and on rough seas, at seances and in the imagination of a genius, these stories converge in unexpected ways as the mystery of the ghost ship deepens. Will the sea yield its secrets?

Adult.

9781444826357 (hbk) 1444826352


Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 --Fiction.


Mary Celeste (Brig)--Fiction.


Families--Fiction.
Spiritualists--United States--Fiction.


Sea stories.
Ghost stories.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.