The Ruby in the Smoke A Sally Lockhart Mystery [Paperback]

“BEWARE THE SEVEN blessings . . . ” When she first utters these words, 16-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 to her father’s mysterious death.PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass,The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time byNewsweekand one of the all-time greatest novels byEntertainment Weekly. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal forThe Golden Compass(and the reader-voted Carnegie of Carnegies for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award forThe Amber Spyglass; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle KnifeandThe Amber Spyglass); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
 
It has recently been announced thatThe Book of Dust, the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman, also set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a major work in three parts, with the first part to arrive in October 2017.  
 
Philip Pullman is the author of many other much-lauded novels. Other volumes related to His Dark Materials:Lyra’s Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, andThe Collectors. For younger readers:I Was a Rat!; Count Karlstein; Two Crafty Criminals; Spring-Heeled Jack,andThe Scarecrow and His Servant.For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet:The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well,and