- Mystery and detective stories, History, Sex role, Swindlers and swindling
A colourful, action-packed Victorian detective novel centred around the exploits of Agent Mary Quinn. At a young age, Mary is rescued from the gallows by a woman masquerading as a prison warden and taken to Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls. There, she discovers, the school is a front for a private investigation agency.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Y. S. Lee
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Walker, Candlewick Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781406315165
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