Séance Infernale - Paperback

Name: Séance Infernale - Paperback
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SKU: 9781101970508
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by Jonathan Skariton

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Book Overview

Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate what could be the first movie ever made--Séance Infernale. Its creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures--not the Lumière brothers or Thomas Edison. In 1890, Sekular had boarded a Paris-bound train from Dijon, days before he was to present to the world his greatest new invention: a moving picture machine. But he never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again.

When Whitman tracks down what could be fragments of Sekuler's famously lost film, questions are raised--about Sekuler, about the fate of him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as these riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery. At once riveting, atmospheric, and filled with vivid historical detail, Séance Infernale is a heart-pounding work of mystery and suspense.

ISBN	9781101970508
Author	Jonathan Skariton
Publisher	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	July 2018
Language	ENG- English
Pages	304
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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