![]() What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress’s old friends. ![]() ![]() Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate’s daughter who has fled from home. Her progression from domestic staff to college student to wartime nurse to private investigator is both believable and compelling."- San Francisco Chronicle Winspear does a fine job with the ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ aspects of the story, depicting the class tensions that inevitably arise as Dobbs climbs to a new station in life. Winspear takes her through her ordeal with great compassion."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review ![]() Prepare to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief."-Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" on NPR If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ you’d approximate the peculiar range of topics and tones within this novel. " Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. ![]()
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