Seance Infernale, Skariton Jonathan, Kontaris Ioannis

Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate a copy of S ance Infernale. The films creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures (not the Lumi re 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 Sekuler never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again. When Alex Whitman tracks down what might be fragments of Sekulers famously lost film, questions are raised--about Sekuler, about what happened to him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as the films riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery.