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Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie?s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 6
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man committing suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Prime Minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met - and the writer mentions Maisie by name. Tapped by Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch to be a special adviser on the case, Maisie is soon involved in a race against time to find a man who proves he has the knowledge...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
1931. Maisie Dobbs' new case takes her into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson and theft in the town of Heronsdene have gone suspiciously unreported. Maisie's employer wants her to uncover the truth behind the crimes before he can buy any part of the Sandermere estate adjacent to the village.
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