Philip Pullman - Sally Lockhart Trilogy
Author Philip Pullman is best known for his fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, set in a series of alternate universes. By contrast, the Sally Lockhart mysteries are firmly set in the universe of 19th-century sensationalistic fiction. Pullman calls The Ruby in the Smoke an "old-fashioned Victorian blood-and thunder... with a genuine cliché of melodrama right at the heart of it, on purpose: the priceless cursed jewel."
A spunky heroine braves assassins, opium dens, and worse to get to the bottom of her father's mysterious death in this adaptation of Philip Pullman's Victorian-era thriller The Ruby in the Smoke. Pullman's 1985 novel introduced teenage sleuth Sally Lockhart, a self-reliant orphan schooled by her late father in shooting, bookkeeping, and Hindustani.
The story opens in London in 1872. Sally's father, in the South China Seas investigating suspicious activity in his shipping business, has gone down with the schooner Lavinia. After receiving an anonymous letter postmarked 'Singapore' to beware of the 'Seven Blessings,' she asks one of her father's business associates about it; he clutches his heart and drops dead on the spot.
Sally Lockhart - Book 1 - The Ruby in the Smoke
A spunky heroine braves assassins, opium dens, and worse to get to the bottom of her father's mysterious death in this adaptation of Philip Pullman's Victorian-era thriller The Ruby in the Smoke. Pullman's 1985 novel introduced teenage sleuth Sally Lockhart, a self-reliant orphan schooled by her late father in shooting, bookkeeping, and Hindustani.
The story opens in London in 1872. Sally's father, in the South China Seas investigating suspicious activity in his shipping business, has gone down with the schooner Lavinia. After receiving an anonymous letter postmarked 'Singapore' to beware of the 'Seven Blessings,' she asks one of her father's business associates about it; he clutches his heart and drops dead on the spot.
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Sally Lockhart - Book 2 - The Shadow in the North
Sally is up against a power that seems to involve the mysteries of life and death. A spiritualist séance provides the first clue; a disappearing magician, a document in the Patent Office, a Swedish industrialist of immense and deadly power, and the most beautiful young woman in England all play their parts. I had great fun with the theatre in this story - the bright colours, the vivid situations, the sense of hard sweaty strenuous effort behind the scenes, and swiftness and mystery and phantasmagoria in front.
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Sally Lockhart - Book 3 - The Tiger in the Well
Foreword by Philip Pullman
As I grew to know Sally better, and as she grew up, I realised that she'd naturally become interested in social questions of every kind. She is a modern woman. And one of the biggest issues of that time - the book is set in 1881 - was the great increase in Jewish migration, following the persecutions in Russia. So that forms the background: these shiploads of suffering, exploited people drifting westwards in the hope of a better life, and all the criminal gangs making money out of swindling them, and the politicians denouncing them - why, it could be taking place today. But Sally herself, and a mystery, is at the heart of the story. Sally has a little daughter, whose father is dead; but suddenly there appears another man who claims to be Sally's estranged husband, and who seems to have all the evidence to prove it. Sally has never seen him before - but the law of the time allows him to gain custody of her child. And behind it all is the shadowy figure of the Tzaddik, who traffics in human misery ... Sally has to take a terrible risk, and finds herself face to face with an old and deadly enemy.
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