The Shadow in the North is the story of Sally Lockhart, a financial investigator living in London in 1878. Drawn into the misfortunes of shipping investor Miss Walsh, Sally soon finds herself at the center of a web of espionage, fraud, graft, and murder. With the aid of her friend Jim she attempts to solve the mystery and restore Walsh's fortune to her, but the case is bigger than it seems.
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