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The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)

  • Philip Pullman

3.75

8 ratings

"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.

Genres

  • Social life and customs
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Opium
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile literature
  • Orphans
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Rubies
  • History
  • Sally Lockhart (Fictitious character)
  • Opium trade
  • Teenage girls
  • Lockhart, Sally (Personnage fictif : Pullman)
  • Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
  • Roman policier
  • Orphelines
  • Orphans, fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • London (england), history, fiction
  • Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
  • Lockhart, sally (fictitious character), fiction
  • Historische romans (genre)
  • English literature
  • Thriller (genre)
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  • Philip Pullman

    19 October 1946 - )

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    Edicions Bromera, S.L.

    Sep 18, 2009

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    Gallimard

    May 22, 2003

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    Rosmėn

    2004

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    Ėksmo, Domino

    2009

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Prometheus Kinderboeken

2003

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    Scholastic

    2015

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    Ithaki Yayinlari

    Oct 29, 2013

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    Gallimard jeunesse

    2007

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    Listening Library (Audio)

    Sep 09, 2008

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    Puck

    2007

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    Scholastic, SCHOLASTIC

    2006

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    Scholastic Point

    March 19, 1999

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    Scholastic

    2009

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    Beltz

    February 14, 2002

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    Beltz

    January 1, 1998

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    Laurel Leaf

    November 12, 1988

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    1st trade pbk. ed.

    Alfred A. Knopf

    2008

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    Unabridged edition

    BBC Audiobooks

    November 5, 2001

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    Scholastic Point

    February 13, 2004

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    Unabridged edition

    Listening Library (Audio)

    June 8, 2004

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    Rev ed.

    Puffin in association with Oxford University Press

    1987

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    Tandem Library

    October 1999

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    Oxford University Press, Knopf

    1985

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    Peter Smith Pub Inc

    January 31, 2002

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    Listening Library

    January 2006

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    Puffin Books in association with O.U.P.

    1994

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    1st Laurel-Leaf ed.

    Dell Laurel-Leaf

    2000

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    Demco Media

    1988-11-01

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    Objetiva

    Jan 01, 2009

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    Scholastic

    2012

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    Scholastic

    2016

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    Scholastic

    2018

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    1st American ed.

    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1985

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    Alfred A. Knoff

    1987

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    Random House

    1987

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    Knopf

    1987

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    1st trade pbk. ed.

    Alfred A. Knopf

    2008

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    Scholastic Canada

    2004

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    1st American ed.

    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1985

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    Perfection Learning Prebound

    September 1989