So it turns out Philip Pullman wrote a series of Victorian-set YA detective novels featuring one Miss Sally Lockhart. Romance, intrigue, the London underworld--this is all right up Miranda's alley. And how did I find out about this? Well, my DH left town and I finally had access to the remote and all those goodies I store up in the DVR for such opportunities. Earlier this week I got to watch a Masterpiece Mystery adaptation (introduced by the incomparable, yet vampirically pale, Alan Cummings) of the first book in the Lockhart series -- The Ruby in the Smoke. It totally sucked me in, particularly the romantic subplot with Frederick Garland--a charming, young photographer.
The next day, I started watching The Shadow in the North, the second installment in the series only to discover at a mere 11 minutes into the episode that SOMEONE had switched off the DVR in order to watch some other program and the rest of the episode was lost. Lost forever! The remote control suffered the consequences of this terrible wrong because the true villain was at a conference in Naples, Florida.
My book budget is feeling a bit constrained right now, not to mention that my TBR pile is already too full, so the Sally Lockhart series is waiting in my Amazon basket until I'm bit more flush on the financial and time fronts.
To be continued . . .
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