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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
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.
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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.
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