A spy in the house (The Agency #1)

Y. S. Lee First published 2010

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • great britain, history, fiction
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • household employees
  • household employees, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • mystery and detective stories
  • mystery fiction
  • orphans
  • orphans, fiction
  • sex role
  • sex role, fiction
  • swindlers and swindling