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.
year: 2011, 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: sex role, juvenile fiction, orphans, swindlers and swindling, household employees, fiction, mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, mystery fiction, gender role, london (england), history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, great britain, victoria, 1837-1901, fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Editions
Lee, Y. S
Candlewick Press (2011)
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.
Schools: 0
Lee, Y. S
Candlewick (2009)
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.
Schools: 2