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The second book in Philip Pullman''s classic Sally Lockhart quartet in a beautiful new edition. Sally Lockhart is twenty-two, and running her own financial consultancy - a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men - but she''s about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder, mystery and pure evil. When a client''s lost investment appears suspicious, Sally investigates. Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger and deceit, which can lead her in only one direction - to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North. |