Series
Sally Lockhart
Philip Pullman · 4 novels · 1985–2000
Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet follows a resourceful, unconventional heroine navigating Victorian London - a sharpshooting, mathematically gifted young orphan who builds an improbable career as a financial consultant against the era's expectations for women. The Ruby in the Smoke opens with Sally investigating her father's death and a mysterious jewel; the following novels widen out into fraud, opium-trade crime, and international intrigue, tracking Sally's evolving relationships, including with the journalist Daniel Goldberg, across four Victorian-set mysteries.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s1
- 2000s1
Shape
4 novels
1 author
reads like:historical fictionmurder investigationbritish isles19th centurytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Tiger in the Welldarkest
- The Tin Princessbrightest · most intense
- The Shadow in the Platecalmest