Táto séria sleduje osudy mladej a odvážnej ženy v pochmúrnom viktoriánskom Londýne. Každý diel ju zavedie do nového dobrodružstva plného záhad, intríg a nebezpečenstva. Mladá hrdinka sa musí spoľahnúť na svoj dôvtip a odvahu, aby odhalila pravdu a prežila v drsnom svete plnom tajomstiev. Je to napínavé čítanie pre tých, ktorí milujú historické detektívky s výraznou ženskou postavou.
“BEWARE THE SEVEN blessings . . . ” When she first utters these words, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn’t know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally’s terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues to her father’s mysterious death.
Sally is now twenty-two, and running her own financial consultancy - a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men - but she's about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder, mystery and pure evil. When a client's lost investment appears suspicious, Sally investigates. Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger and deceit, which can lead her in only one direction - to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North.
Sally's world is wonderful until one man brings it crashing down around her. He is trying to get everything, even her sanity.
Nella Londra vittoriana, l'amico e compagno di avventure di Sally Lockhart Jim Taylor ha trovato finalmente Adelaide, la ragazzina che la tremenda Miss Holland trattava come sua schiava nel "Rubino di fumo". Ora sta per diventare la principessa di un Paese lontano, la Razkavia. Una principessa in pericolo, scopre Jim: il futuro marito di Adelaide lo sa e vuole proteggerla, e assume Jim come guardia del corpo. Pullman ha scritto al tempo stesso un romanzo per ragazzi, un romanzo femminile, un mystery, un romanzo storico.
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.