The Shadow in the North

By: Philip Pullman

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Paperback | 1 August 1999

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An elderly lady loses her money on an investment; a conjuror is pursued by thugs; and a clairvoyant mentions the name of the richest man in Europe and his mysterious company. Seemingly unconnected events set Sally Lockhart on the trail of an evil far more awful than she could ever imagine.

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Sally Lockhart, the super-competent heroine introduced in The Ruby in the Smoke (1987), returns in another neo-Victorian thriller. Six years have passed. At 22, Sally, now a successful financial advisor (ironically presaging the 1980's), is also business manager for Fred Garland's photography shop. When one of Sally's clients is defrauded of her life savings as a result of taking Sally's advice, Sally and Fred become involved in unravelling a mystery that involves a ship lost at sea, a secret marriage, a gallery of characters from various classes, a hint of the occult, and, at the heart of the matter, the evil manufacturer of a diabolical secret weapon so effective that its use is unthinkable. As before, Pullman spins all this into a compelling yarn with its many threads neatly tied, while introducing some serious issues: Sally and Fred are at odds because, fiercely independent, she fears being subject to the property laws that would be invoked by their marriage; the loathsome "Steam Gun" (a clever concoction of 19th-century technology, destined for use on the Siberian Railway) is "a tyrant's weapon, a coward's weapon" manufactured by reluctant workers with no economic alternative. And though the villain is foiled, there is a stunning plot-reversal rather than a neat, romantic conclusion. Readers should be delighted to know that Pullman plans a third volume about the charming, indomitable Sally. (Kirkus Reviews)

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