by Philip Pullman · Arnoldo Mondadori Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804433095
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«Un rubino nel fumo» is the mystery novel by Philip Pullman, published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in paperback (231 pages, in Italian).
The novel, set in Victorian London in 1872, follows Sally Lockhart, a sixteen-year-old girl who tries to recover the Ruby of Agrapur that her adoptive father left her as an inheritance. Opium traffickers, secret societies and killers willing to kill for the jewel cross her path, while Sally tries to discover the truth about her inheritance.
First installment of the Sally Lockhart series. The Italian edition, translated by Vittorio Buongiorno, was published in 1997; the English original, The Ruby in the Smoke, appeared in 1985.
Aimed at young and adult readers who enjoy historical mysteries and adventures with a female protagonist.
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.
