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The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
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The Shadow in the North

by Philip Pullman

Series: Sally Lockhart Mysteries (2)

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Another great Sally Lockheart mystery by Philip Pullman. I think these are so much better than the Dark Materials Trilogy!!! Sally is her independent, fierce self in this mystery which takes place in Victorian England, this time involving financial fraud, psychic entertainers, and weapons of mass destruction. I listened to the audio book, which was read by the fabulous Anton Lesser, and totally loved it. ( )
  renee_desroberts | Oct 14, 2009 |
Some years have passed since The Ruby in the Smoke and Sally Lockhart now has her own financial consulting business, and is a partner in Fred's photography business that is flourishing. While she starts investigations into the Anglo-Baltic shipping business that was run to ground in about a year, Fred is looking into a spiritualist and Jim ends up helping a magician in trouble--and it all turns out to be connected.

I'm finding these books require you to suspend your disbelief for a bit, but it wasn't all that bad for a book to read on the train. ( )
  mari_reads | Aug 29, 2009 |
I read The Ruby in the Smoke a while ago. I guess I got distracted before I read the rest of the trilogy...Great continuation of the Sally Lockhart story -- wow, great ending! ( )
  rfewell | Jan 27, 2009 |
This book does not follow on directly from the events in the previous in the series and leaves some characters behind, with questions about their fate unanswered. The story is at times scary, disturbing and very moving. As for the previous book Pullman blends in historical refernces, although for a reader the literary references are more fun - Jim receives a letter about vampires from Bram Stoker and other characters are reading Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. But it is Sally Lockhart, a stunningly original and independent character who is the heart and soul of this novel as her integrity of spirit drives the narrative. ( )
  riverwillow | Jan 24, 2009 |
Excellent historical mystery series. ( )
  hoosgracie | Oct 14, 2008 |
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For my parents
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One sunny morning in the spring of 1878, the steamship Ingrid Linde, the pride of the Anglo-Baltic shipping line, vanished in the Baltic Sea.
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Canonical titleThe Shadow in the North
Original publication date1988
SeriesSally Lockhart Mysteries (2)
People/CharactersSally Lockhart, Frederick Garland, Jim Taylor, Axel Bellman, Alastair Mackinnon, Webster Garland
Important placesLondon, England, UK
Awards and honorsEdgar Award Nominee (Young Adult, 1989), Phoenix Honor (2006), Edgar Award Nominee, Young Adult (1989), ALA Best Books for Young Adults (1988)
DedicationFor my parents
First wordsOne sunny morning in the spring of 1878, the steamship Ingrid Linde, the pride of the Anglo-Baltic shipping line, vanished in the Baltic Sea.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0394825993, Mass Market Paperback)

Six years after solving the mysteries surrounding the death of her father (in The Ruby in the Smoke), Sally Lockhart has set up her own consulting business. But her photographer friend, Fred Garland, has a habit of drawing her into his private detective work owing to her skill in both finances and firearms. When one of Sally's clients loses a large sum of money invested in a shipping firm and Fred encounters a conjurer on the lam from underworld thugs, the two begin to find links in these apparently disparate cases.

Exquisitely written and packed with a wonderfully diverse, often terrifying cast of characters and dark twists and turns of plot, the second installment of the Sally Lockhart trilogy--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Booklist Editors' Choice, and a nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery--is entirely impossible to put down. Make sure book 3, The Tiger in the Well, is close at hand as you near the end of this one. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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