The ruby in the smoke

Description

"Beware the seven blessings" When she first utters there words, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues that will solve the puzzle of ther father's death. Pursued by villains and cutthroats at every turn, she at last uncovers two dark mysteries. One involves the opium trade; the other, a stolen ruby of enormous value. Sally soon learns that she is th the key to both- and that it's worth her very life to find out why.

First Sentence

ON A COLD, FRETFUL AFTERNOON IN EARLY OCTOBER, 1872, hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver.

Subjects

Series Statement

• A Sally Lockhart mystery

Other Editions

• The ruby in the smokeAlfred A. Knopf2008-01-01
• The ruby in the smokeDistributed by Random House1985-01-01
• The ruby in the smokeKnopf1985-01-01
• The ruby in the smokeOxford University Press1985-01-01
• The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1)Laurel Leaf1988-11-12
• The Ruby in the SmokePerfection Learning Prebound1989-09-01