Title: The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
First published: 1985
Description: "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.
Subjects: 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)
Places: London (England), Great Britain, England, London, Londres (Angleterre)
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901, 1800-1950