Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives ananonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die offear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father'sdeath, sixteen-year-old Sally is plunged into a terrifyingmystery in the dark heart of Victorian London.
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.
Don't miss Philip Pullman's incredible
HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed
BBC/HBO television series.