Maisie Dobbs novels

Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955
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1. Maisie Dobbs: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned...

2. Birds of a feather

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. 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. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...

3. Pardonable lies: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as...

4. Messenger of truth: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In 1931 London, when artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death before the opening of an exhibition of his work and police refuse to investigate, his journalist sister Georgina enlists the aid of psychologist Maisie Dobbs to uncover the truth.

5. An incomplete revenge: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.

6. Among the mad

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.

7. The mapping of love and death: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Description:
London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.

8. A lesson in secrets: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.

9. Elegy for Eddie

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden--sellers of fruit and vegetables on the streets of London--Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are deeply skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie--and why? Maisie Dobbs' father, Frankie, had been a costermonger, so she had known the men since childhood. She...

10. Leaving everything most loved: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.

11. A dangerous place: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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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...

12. Journey to Munich: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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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...

13. In this grave hour: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sunday, September 3rd, 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb...

14. To die but once

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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While investigating the disappearance of an apprentice craftsman who had been working on a secret government contract, Maisie discovers links to the London underworld. 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...

15. The American agent: a Maisie Dobbs novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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 U.S. Department of Justice -- Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....

16. The consequences of fear

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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September 1941. Delivery boy Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. He waits until the coast is clear... but arrives at the delivery address to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police Freddie turns to Maisie Dobbs. She believes the boy, but must maintain extreme caution: she is working secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assessing candidates for crucial work...

17. A sunlit weapon

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire--the fastest fighter aircraft in the world--to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect...

18. The comfort of ghosts

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series Volume:
18.
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...