A spy in the house / Y.S. Lee.
By: Li, Rushang.
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BookSeries: Li, Rushang. Agency: Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2009Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 335 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780763640675 (trade); 0763640670.Subject(s): Women detectives -- England -- Juvenile fiction | Swindlers and swindling -- Juvenile fiction | Household employees -- Juvenile fiction | Sex role -- Juvenile fiction | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction | London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction | Mystery and detective stories | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction | Household employees -- Fiction | Sex role -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction | Women detectives -- Fiction | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction | Household employees -- Fiction | Sex role -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Mystery fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: [Fic] Summary: 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.
"A Mary Quinn mystery"--Dust jacket.
Publisher's Weekly, February 2010
Booklist, January 2010
Kirkus Review, February 2010
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.
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