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Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability--and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realized...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square, a place of many memories, she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice--Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....
Author
Series
Language
English
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London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator in post-World War I England, agrees to investigate irregularities surrounding a potential land purchase for her benefactor, tycoon James Compton, and she must contend with the suspicions and outright hostility of the local populace while trying to uncover the mystery behind a series of thus-far petty crimes and fires.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Throughout fifteen years and fourteen books, the Maisie Dobbs series has had a resounding impact on fans. Over the years, readers have shared with author Jacqueline Winspear how Maisie's stories have resonated with them or helped them through a difficult time. Fans have been inspired by her resilience and endurance, repurposing her strength in their own lives in a way perhaps best embodied by the phrase "What Would Maisie Do?" The perfect supplement...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
11) Elegy for Eddie
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Set in London between the two world wars.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 14
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future -- and the risk...
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