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London, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cedric Lawton's son Ralph really is dead. This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Maisie must travel to the former battlefields of northern France, where she served as a nurse in the Great War and where...
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Maisie Dobbs accepts her first assignment for the British Secret Service posing as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, and when the college's founder and principal is murdered, Maisie is ordered to stand back as Scotland Yard investigates, but an unexpected discovery soon pulls Maisie into the investigation and into the rising storm of World War II.
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London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a Mayfair gallery controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident? but Nick's twin sister Georgina isn't convinced so she seeks out a fellow college graduate? Maisie Dobbs psychologist and investigator for help. Before long the case leads Maisie to the beaches of Dungeness?and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world where...
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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....
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"As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series.
October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast...
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"A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government"--
Post-World War II Britain, 1947. Forty-one-year-old "Miss White," as Elinor White lives quietly and privately in Shacklehurst, a village in Kent, England. The residents have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor's war work had...