by Philip Pullman, Jean Esch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070612819
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«Le Mystère de l’Étoile Polaire» is the second mystery novel in Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart series (Folio Junior, paperback, 392 pages, French).
In Victorian London, Sally Lockhart is a detective and financial adviser. When a client ruined by a company’s bankruptcy asks for her help, Sally investigates a powerful, unscrupulous businessman at the head of the mysterious L’Étoile Polaire factory, in an increasingly dangerous inquiry.
Translated from English by Jean Esch; the original title is The Shadow in the North.
Aimed at young readers aged 11 and up and at those seeking a mystery novel with a Victorian setting and a young female detective.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
