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Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan in Victorian England whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting. Sally's high intelligence opens a career path for her as a financial consultant, an extremely difficult job for a woman to obtain considering women at this point ...
Sixteen-year-old Becky is about to have her life changed. A dramatic explosion is only the start of her incredible adventure. As tutor to the cockney Princess (Adelaide of The Ruby in the Smoke, whose fortunes have greatly changed) of Razkavia, a tiny kingdom in Europe, she is plunged into a turmoil of murder and intrigue.
A TV film adaptation written by Adrian Hodges and starring Billie Piper was produced by the BBC.It aired on BBC One on 27 December 2006 [3] and on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery! as The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke on 4 February 2007. [4]
This second Sally Lockhart mystery takes place in late 1878, six years after the events of The Ruby in the Smoke.A Miss Walsh walks into the offices of Sally Lockhart's office (Sally is now working as a financial consultant) about some poor business advice Sally gave her; as a result Miss Walsh has lost her life savings.
Goldberg tells Sally that Parrish is a criminal, involved with many scams including prostitution houses and exploitation of Jewish people. He also tells her about the Tzaddik and she realises that the Tzaddik is the one who wants Harriet. The Tzaddik blackmails a police officer to arrest Dan Goldberg and find Sally Lockhart.
Adelaide briefly becomes a princess when she is married to Prince Rudolf of Razkavia until she becomes the reigning queen due to his sudden death. A part of the Sally Lockhart series. Philip Pullman: Ludmila Ruslan and Ludmila: The daughter of Prince Vladimir of the Kievan Rus'. Alexander Pushkin: Tsarevna The Tale of the Dead Princess and the ...
The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke & The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Shadow in the North with Billie Piper: 2007 (1), 2008 (1) The Sculptress with Pauline Quirke and Caroline Goodall: 1997–1998 (2) Second Sight with Clive Owen: 1999–2000 (1), 2000–2001 (4), 2001–2002 (2)
The Firework-Maker's Daughter has been adapted into an opera of the same name with music by David Bruce and a libretto by Glyn Maxwell.Co-commissioned by ROH2 and The Opera Group, the opera was co-produced by Opera North and The Opera Group in association with ROH2 and Watford Palace Theatre.