As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000, 2
subjects: sex role, orphans, murder, fiction, london (england), history, 19th century, great britain, victoria, 1837-1901, fiction