In a respectable tea-shop in London, a girl with a pistol is holding off three men. Sally Lockhart is fighting for her child--a child who is suddenly not hers any more. Sally is now twenty-five, and somebody wants to destroy her. She is unmarried--but she receives divorce papers from a man she has n
The Tiger in the Well
โ Scribed by Pullman, Philip
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books;Distributed by Random House, Knopf
- Year
- 2017;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 457 KB
- Edition
- New Dell Laurel-Leaf ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0679826718
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โฆ Synopsis
In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.
โฆ Subjects
A Sally Lockhart Mystery
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