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.
"A colourful, action-packed Victorian detective novel centred around the exploits of Agent Mary Quinn. At a young age, Mary is rescued from the gallows by a woman masquerading as a prison warden and taken to Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls. There, she discovers, the school is a front for a private investigation agency."
"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."@en
"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."
"Ironie des Schicksals? Ausgerechnet Mary Quinn, als verurteilte Diebin nur knapp dem Tod durch den Strang entronnen, soll ihrem Vaterland als Spionin dienen. Aber die Fähigkeiten, die die nun 17-Jährige als Waisenkind zum Überleben gebraucht hat, stehen auch einer Spionin nicht schlecht zu Gesicht. Und so kommt sie, als Gesellschafterin für die gleichaltrige Angelica getarnt, in den Haushalt der reichen Familie Thorold. Denn Mr Thorold steht im Verdacht, Kunstschätze aus Fernost nach England zu schmuggeln. Ihre Nachforschungen führen Mary in einen Schrank - und dort in die Arme des jungen und geheimnisvollen James Easton -, in das London chinesischer Matrosen und nicht zuletzt in ihre eigene Vergangenheit. Y. S. Lee wurde in Singapur geboren und ist in Kanada aufgewachsen. Recherchen für ihr Studium über das viktorianische England inspirierten sie zu den Romanen über die "Meisterspionin Mary Quinn". Y. S. Lee lebt heute gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann und ihrem kleinen Sohn in Kingston, Ontario."
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