The Sally Lockhart Collection

The Sally Lockhart Collection
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre: Lockhart, Sally (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781407116419

Four compulsively readable Victorian thrillers, packed with vividly drawn characters and fascinating period detail, together in a slipcase. Includes: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.

The Tin Princess

The Tin Princess
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781407130576

Sally and Jim meet up with Adelaide again, but now as Crown Princess of Razkavia and threatened by rivals who want to take the kingdom from the Crown Prince.

The Ruby in the Smoke

The Ruby in the Smoke
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780394895895

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

The White Mercedes

The White Mercedes
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1997-07-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0679886230

A chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen-year-old Chris with hope for a summer romance—and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past, Chris misses all the signs of danger. Before he knows it, he's caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes all those who stand in his way. "The story line will hook readers and hold them . . . a pageturner that raises some unsettling questions about trust and betrayal and the nature of good and evil."—School Library Journal "An engrossing, tragic story with rare depth of feeling. . . . Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—Kirkus Reviews "Fans of Robert Cormier should appreciate this tense thriller."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The Tiger in the Well: A Sally Lockhart Mystery

The Tiger in the Well: A Sally Lockhart Mystery
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2017-03-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1524764973

UNLIKE MOST VICTORIAN women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally’s whole world is about to collapse. A stranger emerges, claiming to be both her husband and Harriet’s father and threatening all that she has.

Two Crafty Criminals!

Two Crafty Criminals!
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307930351

Benny Kaminsky and Thunderbolt Dobney lead a rag-tag gang of neighborhood rowdies. Their territory is the New Cut on London's South Bank--a place bristling with swindlers, bookies, pickpockets, and the occasional policeman. And their aim is to solve crimes. When counterfeit coins start showing up in their neighborhood, Thunderbolt fears his own father may be behind the crime. But his friends devise a way to trap the real culprit. Then the gang takes on the case of some stolen silver. They have just two clues--a blob of wax, and an unusually long match. But even this slippery thief is unmasked by the determined kids of the New Cut Gang. Filled with silly sleuthing, improbable disguises, crazy ruses, and merry mayhem, these stories are action-packed romps from one of the best storytellers ever--Philip Pullman.

High-Rise: A Novel

High-Rise: A Novel
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0871404737

"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

Pronto

Pronto
Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061835382

“Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better.” —Washington Post “The man knows how to grab you—and Pronto is one of the best grabbers in years.” —Entertainment Weekly Fans of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified are in for a major treat. The unstoppable manhunter with the very itchy trigger finger stars in Pronto, a crime fiction gem from the one and only Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review). The Grand Master justifies the overwhelming acclaim he has received over the course of his remarkable career with an electrifying thriller that sends the indomitable Raylan racing to Italy on the trail of a fugitive bookie who’s hiding from the vengeful Miami mob. The legendary Leonard, whom the Seattle Times lauds as the “King Daddy of crime writers,” proves that all comparisons to American noir icons John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain are well deserved with this tale of very dirty doings and extremely dangerous men coming together in the birthplace of Puccini, Garibaldi, and La Cosa Nostra.