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The Secret of the Alchemist

3.3/5 ( ratings)

In this young adult novel, Gerald de Havilland steals a 16th-century painting from his estranged wife's family in Geneva then decides to doublecross his client in the hope of making a larger profit. Instead he lands himself, his daughter Helen, and Jake, her chance acquaintance, in a sinister tangle of events as they are pursued across Europe by the client, the occultist Aurelian Pounce, who is bent on recovering the painting and solving its secret--nothing less than the whereabouts of the Philosopher's Stone, the object of alchemy's highest quest.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 0613785827

ISBN 13: 9780613785822

The Secret of the Alchemist

3.3/5 ( ratings)

In this young adult novel, Gerald de Havilland steals a 16th-century painting from his estranged wife's family in Geneva then decides to doublecross his client in the hope of making a larger profit. Instead he lands himself, his daughter Helen, and Jake, her chance acquaintance, in a sinister tangle of events as they are pursued across Europe by the client, the occultist Aurelian Pounce, who is bent on recovering the painting and solving its secret--nothing less than the whereabouts of the Philosopher's Stone, the object of alchemy's highest quest.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 0613785827

ISBN 13: 9780613785822

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