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MASTERPIECE™ The Ruby in the Smoke & The Shadow in the North

Billie Piper stars as young sleuth Sally Lockhart in these two programs, based on the novels by Philip Pullman. Sunday, September 28th 8:00 & 9:30pm. on KUAT6. by Hector Gonzalez

Billie Piper reprises her role as young sleuth Sally Lockhart

A spunky heroine braves assassins, opium dens, and worse to get to the bottom of her father’s mysterious death in MASTERPIECE THEATRE’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Victorian-era thriller for young adults, The Ruby in the Smoke. Sunday, September 28th 8:00-9:30pm.

Called “a rip-roaring good adventure story” by School Library Journal, Pullman’s 1985 novel introduced teenage sleuth Sally Lockhart, a self-reliant orphan schooled by her late father in shooting, bookkeeping, and Hindustani.

The thrilling second story in the Sally Lockhart series, The Shadow in the North, airs immediately after at 9:30pm. An elderly woman loses her money on an investment; a conjuror is pursued by thugs; and a clairvoyant mentions the name of the richest man in Europe and his mysterious company. These seemingly unconnected events set Sally Lockhart on the trail of an evil far more awful than she could ever imagine.

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