The Inventor: a tale of old San Francisco
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San Francisco, 1880: Jeremy Fantom hates his job as reporter for the Bulletin. He dreams of joining a circus or going off to sea. But when he meets Hollyhock, the beautiful daughter of a strange inventor that he interviewed, his life starts looking better. At least it does until Hollyhock is abducted and he finds himself drawn into the Barbary Coast underworld. Is Hollyhock’s father a genius or humbug, and what does Rockefeller have to do with it? Grab this book to maybe learn the truth!