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Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives a strange anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel.
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Social life and customs, Detective and mystery stories, Opium, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Juvenile literature, Orphans, Mystery and detective stories, Rubies, History, Sally Lockhart (Fictitious character), Opium trade, Teenage girls, Lockhart, Sally (Personnage fictif : Pullman), Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Roman policier, Orphelines, Orphans, fiction, Children's fiction, London (england), history, fiction, Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction, Lockhart, sally (fictitious character), fiction, Historische romans (genre), English literature, Thriller (genre)Times
19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901, 1800-1950Showing 10 featured editions. View all 41 editions?
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The ruby in the smoke
2008, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
- 1st trade pbk. ed.
037584516X 9780375845161
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The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Quartet)
February 13, 2004, Scholastic Point
0439977789 9780439977784
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"Beware the seven blessings" When she first utters there words, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues that will solve the puzzle of ther father's death. Pursued by villains and cutthroats at every turn, she at last uncovers two dark mysteries. One involves the opium trade; the other, a stolen ruby of enormous value. Sally soon learns that she is th the key to both- and that it's worth her very life to find out why.
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