Missing Cassatt Mural From 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Is The Focal Point In New Middle-Grade Novel

BETHESDA, Md. - Nov. 26, 2013 - PRLog -- It's one of the great mysteries of the art world: Whatever happened to Modern Woman, the massive three-panel mural created by Impressionist Mary Cassatt?

Millions admired Cassatt's mural at the 1893 World's Fair, but then somehow, nineteen years after the fair closed, her painting disappeared.  A new middle-grade adventure, Chicago Bound: A Jake McGreevy Novel, by Sean Vogel, focuses on the mystery of the Cassatt mural. In the book, the four teens find the masterpiece; but in real life, the mural is still missing.

To find the Cassatt mural, Vogel has teamed up with its renowned authority, Professor Sally Webster, author of Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt," launching a national search via a new Web site. Visitors to the site will learn how they can help locate the mural.

Professor Webster believes that the mural may have been donated to a university in the Midwest before the end of 1912 and that it may now be hanging in plain sight. Perhaps the three sections are hanging in separate locations, unidentified. Or the mural may be waiting to be discovered in a basement storage room, crated and hidden from view.

Chicago Bound is book two in the Jake McGreevy middle-grade series. It follows the story of four talented and tenacious kids trying to determine why Jake's mother died in Chicago thirteen years earlier. Was it really an accident? Ms. McGreevy had been an expert hired by the Chicago Art Institute to verify whether a recently discovered mural was, in fact, the Cassatt mural that was displayed at the 1893 World's Fair.

Using Jake's mother's journal, hidden messages, the library, and plenty of gadgets, the four resourceful friends must outfox several nefarious characters who do know, in fact, the truth about the mural and Ms. McGreevy's demise.

As Professor Webster notes, "Tracking down the killer, and the Cassatt painting, takes the teenagers on a thrill-packed adventure from the Art Institute of Chicago, to a tea room in Marshall Field's, to the grand finale in, of all places, a retirement home. Chicago Bound is loving and eventful, and most of all a great read."

Jack Magnus, from Readers' Favorite, awards the novel five stars: "Art, mystery, music, humor, and adventure--Chicago Bound has it all...This is a grand read."

It's not every day that a novel takes readers from the pages of a book to the campuses of higher learning on the search of a lifetime.

Chicago Bound is available in paperback and eBook form from online retailers and independent bookstores.

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Chicago Bound: A Jake McGreevy Novel: $9.95 (paperback), $4.99 (eBook)
Publication date: November 21, 2013
176 pages
ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9850814-5-4
ISBN (Epub): 978-0-9850814-6-1

Also by Sean Vogel: Celtic Run: A Jake McGreevy Novel (Book One)
160 pages
ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9624166-9-9
ISBN (Epub): 978-0-9624166-7-5