Sally Lockhart The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery, (Paperback)

from bookworm12

Sally is a teenage girl living in Victorian England when her father dies unexpectedly. A mysterious letter leads her to believe he was murdered and she begins to search for the truth. This mystery has a very Dickensian feel to it. Orphaned girl, villains after her, paths crossing with interesting...

from catapogo

Very enjoyable adventure story. There is something still appealing about the children/young adult hero/heroines being thrown on their own against villainous grown ups and defeating them through ingenuity, luck, loyalty and general goodness. Doesn't have the allegorical philisophical elements of H...

from MagicalSibylle

My personal history with this series of books is a bit unusual, I suppose. I saw the TV adaptations of the first two books, then read the third and fourth books and I've recently decided to read the first two. The Ruby in the Smoke is the first book following Sally Lockhart, a spunky 16-year-old ...

from Smiler69

1872, London. "Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Hard not to be immediately pulled into a story with a sentence like that! In the first of the four Sally Lockhart Mystery novels, having been recently orphaned with her father's ship sinking some...

from Lman

I read this book in one sitting, as I wanted to read it before a television episode of the story aired. I found it an easy, entertaining study of Victorian London, with droll caricatures of evil villains, and delightful heroes aplenty, yet slightly lacking in substance. The story's mainstay is Sa...