A spy in the house /
Lee, Y.S.
A spy in the house / by Y.S. Lee. - Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2009. - 335 p. - The agency ; bk. 1 .
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 the age of seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
978076365289
Mystery and detective stories
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction
Household employees--Fiction
Sex role--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
London (England)--History--Fiction--19th century
Great Britain--History--Fiction--Victoria, 1837-1901
A spy in the house / by Y.S. Lee. - Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2009. - 335 p. - The agency ; bk. 1 .
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 the age of seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
978076365289
Mystery and detective stories
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction
Household employees--Fiction
Sex role--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
London (England)--History--Fiction--19th century
Great Britain--History--Fiction--Victoria, 1837-1901