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.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: women detectives, england, swindlers and swindling, household employees, sex role, orphans, london (england), history, 19th century, great britain, victoria, 1837-1901, fiction