The ruby in the smoke

You know how to ride and without a miss fire with a pistol? Versed in accounting, business and military strategy? Easy to solve logical problems? No? Do not be sad. In England the nineteenth century this rare set of knowledge possessed only one girl... Let me introduce you to miss Sally Lockhart!
When under mysterious circumstances in the South seas father dies captain Sally Lockhart, a girl one on one is faced with a mystery from the clues which her life depends.
The cycle of novels about Sally Lockhart brought the writer no less glory than the novels "the Golden compass", "Wonderful knife" and "Amber telescope" from the famous trilogy "the Dark beginnings".