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: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: women detectives, swindlers and swindling [X], household employees, sex role, orphans, london (england), great britain
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, swindlers and swindling [X], household employees, mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, mystery fiction, gender role, london (england), great britain, mystery fiction, historical fiction, detective and mystery fiction