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. Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate’s daughter who has fled from home. Her progression from domestic staff to college student to wartime nurse to private investigator is both believable and compelling."- San Francisco Chronicle Winspear does a fine job with the ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ aspects of the story, depicting the class tensions that inevitably arise as Dobbs climbs to a new station in life. Winspear takes her through her ordeal with great compassion."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Prepare to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief."-Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" on NPR If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ you’d approximate the peculiar range of topics and tones within this novel. " Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation.
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