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This second Sally Lockhart mystery takes place in late 1878, six years after the events of The Ruby in the Smoke.A Miss Walsh walks into the offices of Sally Lockhart's office (Sally is now working as a financial consultant) about some poor business advice Sally gave her; as a result Miss Walsh has lost her life savings.
Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan in Victorian England whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting. Sally's high intelligence opens a career path for her as a financial consultant, an extremely difficult job for a woman to obtain considering women at this point ...
1960–1974. Status. Retired. Rank. Patrolman. Detective sergeant. Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) [1] is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as ...
Arsenic and Adobo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) The first book in a culinary cozy mystery series, Arsenic and Adobo finds 0ur protagonist, Lila, moving back home from a horrible break-up. But ...
Writer, Editor. John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. [ 1 ] He produced four novels in the early 1820s including Adam ...
The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) is a novel by the English author Philip Pullman. It went on to win the 1987 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. [1] It was also adapted for television in 2006. This book is the first of the Sally Lockhart Quartet. It is followed by The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.
16 September 1959. (1959-09-16) –. 22 June 1967. (1967-06-22) No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag (1957–1958) and Crime Sheet (1959), all starring Raymond ...
Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. W. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. [2]Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels, and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. [3]