A spy in the house
Título
:
A spy in the house
Y. S. Lee
Resumen
:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
:
2009-2010
The Agency ;
bk. 1
Descripción física
:
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Información del programa
:
Gr. 7+
Término de la materia
:
Orphans -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Término geográfico
:
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Género
:
Mystery fiction.
Síntesis
:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
ISBN
:
9780763652890
9780763640675
Información de publicación
:
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2009.
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| A. Blair McPherson | HIS LEE | Book | 31458000058084 | Historical Fiction |