Maisie Dobbs - Hardcover

Winspear, Jacqueline

3.92

110,595 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719566215 ISBN 13: 9780719566219

Publisher: John Murray, 2004

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Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways.

Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to be tested. For her first case forces her to uncover secrets long buried, and to confront ghosts from her own past...

In Maisie, Jacqueline Winspear has created a character that readers will immediately take to their hearts. Her first case combines a gripping investigation with a moving portrait of love and loss. It marks the beginning of a wonderful new detective series.

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Review:

A wry and immensely readable beginning to what promises to be a vivid new addition to crime fiction (Mail on Sunday)

Maisie Dobbs is a welcome and unusual addition to the crowded world of literary detectives. ... A very readable whodunnit (Sainsbury's Magazine)

Sue Baker's 'Quarterly Highlights' (Publisher's Weekly)

Simultaneously self-reliant and vulnerable, Maisie isn't a character I'll easily forget (Elizabeth George)

Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs is a welcome addition to the sleuthing scene. Simultaneously self-reliant and vulnerable, Maisie isn't a character I'll easily forget (Elisabeth George)

Very well written ... [Jacqueline Winspear has] a very bright future as a crime novelist (Daily Mail)

Even if detective stories aren't your thing, you'll love Maisie Dobbs (New Woman)

Readers sensing a story-within-a-story won't be disappointed. But first, they must prepare to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment (New York Times)

Much more than just another detective story... thought-provoking (Newbooksmag)

American readers loved it; many Brits will, too. (Guardian)

Book Description:

Introducing the delightful Maisie Dobbs, private investigator of love and war in 1920s London, guaranteed to be embraced by crime readers everywhere

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