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"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...
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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 realizes...
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"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. ... 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 the deaths of a group...
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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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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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Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of...
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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...
10) Elegy for Eddie
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After Eddie Pettit is killed, Maisie begins searching for answers in the working-class streets of Lambeth where Eddie lived, but the inquiry leads to a 'has been' politician named Winston Churchill and the husband of her dearest friend, and it becomes clear that powerful forces are determined to prevent Maisie from learning the truth.
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London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal's body is discovered in the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but everything indicates they failed to conducts a full investigation. Usha has been staying at an ayah's hostel, a refuge for Indian women. As Maisie learns, Usha was different from the hostel's other residents. But with this discovery comes...
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"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 find a runaway heiress....
13) To die but once
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Spring, 1940: England has declared war on Germany. Sandbags line the underground stations and public buildings. People are told to carry their gas masks at all times. Maisie investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a secret government contract, which leads her to a web of wartime opportunism that reminds her of the inextricable link between money and war. [From publisher's description]
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London Private investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into an terrorist investigation after the Home Secretary's office opens a threatening letter that features Maisie's name; meanwhile, Maisie's assistant Billy Beale struggles to aid his wife, who is suffering a deep depression over the loss of their daughter.
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