Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1)

By Jacqueline Winspear

Subjects: Mystery, Veterans, Women Sleuths, World War, 1914-1918, Women private investigators, Large type books, Fiction, historical, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, London (england), fiction, FICTION, Traditional, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Maisie Dobbs (Fictitious character), Historical fiction, Dobbs, maisie (fictitious character), fiction, Mystery & Detective, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Lady's maids, Historical, Mystery fiction, History, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.