by Y. S. Lee
He grinned suddenly, brilliantly. “Are you mad? Sounds like heaven to me.”
Y. S. LEE was born in Singapore and raised in Vancouver and Toronto. In 2004, she completed her PhD in Victorian literature and culture. This research, combined with time spent in London, inspired her to begin the Agency trilogy, about which she says, “Women’s choices were grim in those days, even for the clever. If a top secret women’s detective agency existed in Victorian England, it left no evidence — just as well, since that would cast serious doubt on its competence. The Agency is a totally unrealistic, completely fictitious antidote to the fate that would otherwise swallow a girl like Mary Quinn.” Y. S. Lee now lives in Ontario with her family.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2012 by Y. S. Lee
Cover photograph copyright © 2012 by Scott Nobles
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First U.S. electronic edition 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number pending
ISBN 978-0-7636-5316-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5959-2 (electronic)
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