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The first book in Philip Pullman''s classic Sally Lockhart quartet in a beautiful new edition. Soon after Sally Lockhart''s father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father''s death, sixteen-year-old Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel. |