A spy in the house /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Mass. :
Candlewick Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Series: | Lee, Y. S. (Ying S.), 1974- Agency.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 335 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780763640675 0763640670 |