In the Sydney Morning herald, Susan Geason wrote:
"I bought these for my nieces but I loved them - The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well (all Scholastic Point), by Philip Pullman, author of the cult trilogy His Dark Materials. Exciting, wildly inventive and refreshingly politically incorrect, these mysteries for teens are set in late Victorian England and star Sally Lockhart, a beautiful 16-year-old orphan who is a crack shot and rides like a Cossack and has advanced ideas and a head for finance. Lashings of Victorian atmosphere - shipping scandals, opium dens, seances, fogs, music halls, fetid slums, colourful villains - and satisfying plots."
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