Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Mysteries)
Автор:
Pullman, Philip, 288 стр., серия:
"A Sally Lockhart Mystery",
издатель:
"Scholastic", ISBN:
978-1-407-13055-2
Sally Lockhart is twenty-two, and running her own financial consultancy - a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men - but she's about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder, mystery and pure evil. When a client's lost investment appearsuspicious, Sally investigates. Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger and deceit, which can lead her in only oneirection - to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North. Philip Pullman's ever-popular, action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012.