The 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 ...

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 Di