Maisie Dobbs

English

ISBN: 0142004332

EAN: 9780142004333

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths/Fiction / Historical/Fiction / War & Military/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 05/26/2004

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Hailed by NPR?s Fresh Airas part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature?s favorite sleuths.Maisie Dobbs isn?t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence?and the patronage of her benevolent employers?she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.

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Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.65 inches

Width: 5.05 inches

Length: 7.75 inches

Weight: 7.48 oz

Pages: 304