A spy in the house
By: Y.S. Lee.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Series: The Agency -- bk. 1
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Somerville, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763640675
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.