After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Related: Austria, Europe, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mystery and Thriller
- ISBN: 9780525473473
- Author: Ibbotson, Eva
- Illustrator: Hawkes, Kevin
- Published: 2004
- Themes: 19th Century, Adventures, Mystery
- Descriptors: Austria, Europe, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mystery and Thriller