Four compulsively readable Victorian thrillers, packed with vividly drawn characters and fascinating period detail, together in a slipcase. Includes: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.

Lorsque son père disparaît en mer de Chine dans des circonstances suspectes, la jeune et intrépide Sally Lockhart se retrouve livrée à elle-même dans le Londres inquiétant de l'époque victorienne... Sans qu'elle le sache encore, un grand danger rôde autour d'elle. Parviendra-t-elle à percer le secret d'un rubis fabuleux qui excite les convoitises et sème la mort autour de lui ? Il semble être au cœur du mystère... Dans ce roman au suspense haletant, l'auteur de la célèbre trilogie A la croisée des mondes campe une héroïne inoubliable dans l'atmosphère ténébreuse du vieux Londres.

Sally Lockhart, now a financial advisor, investigates the reasons behind the loss of a client's fortune, and uncovers a sinister plot.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Benny Kaminsky and Thunderbolt Dobney lead a rag-tag gang of neighborhood rowdies. Their territory is the New Cut on London's South Bank--a place bristling with swindlers, bookies, pickpockets, and the occasional policeman. And their aim is to solve crimes. When counterfeit coins start showing up in their neighborhood, Thunderbolt fears his own father may be behind the crime. But his friends devise a way to trap the real culprit. Then the gang takes on the case of some stolen silver. They have just two clues--a blob of wax, and an unusually long match. But even this slippery thief is unmasked by the determined kids of the New Cut Gang. Filled with silly sleuthing, improbable disguises, crazy ruses, and merry mayhem, these stories are action-packed romps from one of the best storytellers ever--Philip Pullman.

Sally and Jim meet up with Adelaide again, but now as Crown Princess of Razkavia and threatened by rivals who want to take the kingdom from the Crown Prince.

Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.