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   Sally may only be 19 years old but she's a remarkable young woman - beautiful, with extraordinary strength and determination. She was orphaned when her father, shipping agent Matthew Lockhart...

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     Together, Sally, Fred and Jim pit their wits against the...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sally_LockhartSally Lockhart - Wikipedia

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   She befriends Jim Taylor (a consulting detective), Sally Goldberg (a financial consultant), Prince Rudolf (the crown prince of Razkavia), and his Cockney wife Adelaide Bevan (an old friend of Jim and Sally's).

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   Frederick Garland, a photographer, and Jim Taylor, an office boy, emerge as the main heroes assisting Sally on her quest. Ultimately, however, Sally must face the villains on her own.

4. www.imdb.com › title › tt1587299The Ruby in the Smoke (TV Movie 2006) - IMDb

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   Sally is helped by her friends, including Frederick Garland (J.J. Feild), a photographer, and Jim (Matt Smith), a young assistant at the family's shipping firm. The ever twisting mystery involves assassins, opium dens, Chinese gangs, and the Ruby of Agrapur.

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   • Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

   • Director: Brian Percival
   • Release Date: 2007-02-04

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Ruby_in_the_SmokeThe Ruby in the Smoke - Wikipedia

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   The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) is a novel by the English author Philip Pullman. It went on to win the 1987 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. [1] It was also adapted for television in 2006. This book is the first of the Sally Lockhart Quartet.

   • Author: Philip Pullman

   • Publish Year: 1985

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   Adelaide goes to Selby and Lockhart and talks to Jim, who passes the news on to Sally. Mrs. Holland hires a man called Mr. Hopkins to rob Sally of the paper with the riddle on it. He steals the paper but is mugged and killed in the street afterwards.

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   Who is Sally Lockhart?

   • Veronica Beatrice "Sally" Lockhart (later Goldberg) is a fictional character in a series of books by Philip Pullman. Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan in Victorian England whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting.

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   What does Sally Lockhart look like?

   • Sally Lockhart is first introduced in The Ruby in the Smoke, the first of the four novels in the Sally Lockhart Quartet. The book begins in London in 1872, where Pullman states Lockhart is "sixteen or so". Physically, Lockhart is described as being "uncommonly pretty"; she has blonde hair, dark brown eyes and is "slender and pale".

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   Who is Sally Lockhart & how did he meet him?

   • He meets Sally Lockhart by chance when he helps her escape from Mrs Holland, who is in hot pursuit. Soon, he becomes Sally's closest friend - and takes her under his wing when she needs somewhere to stay in London. It's not long before an attraction grows between him and Sally, which could turn into something special.

   BBC - Press Office - The Ruby In The Smoke: character profiles

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   What happened to Sally Lockhart's father?

   • Sally Lockhart's father has just died and she has received a mysterious letter telling her to seek out Marchbanks and to avoid 'The Seven Blessings.' Sally begins to investigate and is soon drawn into two dangerous mysteries, one revolving around a much-desired Ruby, and the other concerning her father's death.

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   Why does Sally Go to Selby & Lockhart?

   • Sally goes to the offices of her late father's shipping firm, Selby and Lockhart. She has received a letter that warns her about the 'Seven Blessings.' She asks the company Secretary about this and he immediately dies of fright. A boy called Jim overhears this and decides to help Sally with her mystery.

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   Is Sally Lockhart a good character?

   • In true melodramatic fashion, Pullman crafts sleazy, despicable villains alongside wholesome, trustworthy, and kindhearted heroes and heroines. Despite her youth and sensitivity, Sally Lockhart is a resourceful, fearless, and determined protagonist who, although occasionally allowing Frederick Garland to take the lead, remains fiercely independent.

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   The Ruby in the Smoke is a novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1985. It is the first in the Sally Lockhart series. The novel opens in London in 1872, as sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart gets out of a horse-drawn cab outside her father’s offices. The reader is informed that Sally will kill a man in fifteen minutes.