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A spy in the house

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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  • ISBN: 9780763651824 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0763651826 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (335 p.)
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.

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Subject: Swindlers and swindling -- Juvenile fiction
Household employees -- Juvenile fiction
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
Household employees -- Fiction
Sex role -- Fiction
Orphans -- Fiction
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction
Mystery and detective stories
Genre: EBOOK.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Electronic books.

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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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