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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 3

  Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  A new Maisie Dobbs novel from award-winning author Jacqueline Winspear   In the third novel of this unique and masterly crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, 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... (more)
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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 2

  Birds of a Feather

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs , won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds 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. But... (more)
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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 1

  Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  Hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth , part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs , this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way ... (more)
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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 4

  Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels)

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick’s twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in... (more)