The Ruby in the Smoke
Publisher: Random Library
Published: February 1992
Format: Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9789992823514
Subjects: Orphans; Mystery and detective stories; Fiction; London (England)
First sentence: ON A COLD, FRETFUL AFTERNOON IN EARLY OCTOBER, 1872, 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.