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A mysterious death at sea, a beautiful orphan, a priceless ruby, and the opium trade come together in this mystery set in 19th-century London. When 16-year-old orphan Sally Lockhart receives a strange and confusing message postmarked from Singapore, she is sure it is somehow tied to the death of her father. Determined to discover what really happened to her father, whose last known whereabouts were in Singapore, Sally soon finds herself caught up in a world full of dangerous thieves, evil blackmailers, and other nefarious villains. THE RUBY IN THE SMOKE is the first book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy, which continues in THE SHADOW IN THE NORTH and concludes with THE TIGER IN THE WELL., In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
| Details | | Series: | Sally Lockhart Trilogy Book 1 |
| Size | | Length: | 230 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 4.5 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver."
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