Title: A spy in the house (The Agency #1)
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.
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories, History, Sex role, Swindlers and swindling, Orphans, Household employees, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, Household employees, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Orphans, fiction
Places: Great Britain, London (England)
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901