RUBY IN THE SMOKE

The first book in Philip Pullman's classic Sally Lockhart
quartet in a beautiful new edition.

Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous
letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear
at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's
death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart
of Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked
jewel. Philip Pullman's ever-popular, action-packed Victorian
melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens
in 2012.