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NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
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...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 18.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 18
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"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,...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
October 1942. Attacks on British planes that cause a pilot's death lead female pilot Jo Hardy to seek help from investigator Maisie Dobbs, who suspects a connection to the arrival of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
When Maisie Dobbs is hired to find the missing daughter of a wealthy grocery magnate, she discovers that three of the heiress's friends have died violently, leading her to investigate the connection between the disappearance and the murders.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 13
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 13
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs
The thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear's enormously popular New York Times bestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary
...Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
"The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled interview. Meanwhile, unfinished business from a previous...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 4.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 4
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
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.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 14.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 14
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie's investigation...
10. Among the mad
Author:
Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 11.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 11
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Arriving in turbulent 1937 Gibraltar in the aftermath of a tragedy, Maisie Dobbs raises the British Secret Service's suspicions through her involvement in the murder of a Sephardic Jewish photographer.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
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...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Maisie is asked to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a village in Kent during the hop picking season. Mysterious fires erupt in the village and a series of petty crime suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and Maisie needs to use her skills to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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.
16. Elegy for Eddie
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 9.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 9
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Set in London between the two world wars.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7.
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Bess Crawford mysteries volume 2.
Series:
Bess Crawford mysteries volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Nurse Bess Crawford finds herself involved in the search for a devious and dangerous killer in 1917 London after a woman she recognized from a wounded soldier's photograph is found murdered.
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