Lee, Ying S.

A spy in the house / Y.S. Lee. - 1st U.S. ed. - Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2009. - 335 p. ; 22 cm. - Agency . - Lee, Ying S. Agency. .

"A Mary Quinn mystery"--Dust jacket.

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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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Women detectives--Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling--Fiction.
Household employees--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.


London (England)--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--19th century--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.L591173 / Spy 2010

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