The Ruby In The Smoke
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], orphans [X], mystery fiction [X], london (england), readers rule, criminals, historical fiction, great britain [X], london
A Spy In The House
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: sex role, orphans [X], swindlers and swindling, household employees, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction [X], gender role, london (england), great britain [X], mystery fiction, historical fiction, detective and mystery fiction