The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery

Pullman, Philip

ISBN 10: 0394895894 / ISBN 13: 9780394895895

Editore: Laurel Leaf, 1988

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No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

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• Titolo: The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery
• Editore: Laurel Leaf
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0394895894
• ISBN 13: 9780394895895
• Rilegatura: Mass Market Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 6 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Young Adult

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Riassunto

Searching for clues that will reveal the truth behind her father's death, young Sally Lockhart becomes enmeshed in a double mystery of London's shadowy underworld in which she realizes that she is the key to the answer. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.

Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England and was brought up in Rhodesia, Australia, London and Wales. Philip graduated from Oxford University in 1973 with a degree in English, and has taught middle school at Westminter College. He is the author of many highly-acclaimed books for young readers, from contemporary fiction to Victorian thrillers, and has written plays and picture books for readers of all ages. Philip's current book, The Golden Compass , has been hailed as "a rich combination of high fantasy, high drama, and intense emotion" by author Lloyd Alexander, and "extraordinary storytelling at it's very best" by the Detroit Free-Press .

Philip currently lives in Oxford with his wife, Judith, and children.