The first book in Philip Pullman's classic Sally Lockhartquartet in a beautiful new edition. Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymousletter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fearat her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father'sdeath, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heartof Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soakedjewel. Philip Pullman's ever-popular, action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickensin 2012.