Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs #1

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294 pages

English language

Published Sept. 24, 2003 by Soho Press.

ISBN:
978-1-56947-330-6
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4 stars (4 reviews)

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.

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reviewed Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

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3 stars

I’ve heard about this series for years but never quite got round to it. Then a coworker suggested it, right at the moment when I had nothing light to read. And it’s pretty good. Not my favourite of the quirky 20th-century female detectives, but I seem to have run out of Dandy Gilver and Aimee Leduc didn’t hold my interest, so this series will keep me entertained until the end of June, when several other books I’m waiting for are due to be published. I’ve got the next two on hold at the library.

reviewed Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Review of 'Maisie Dobbs' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The whole feel of this book is totally different than what I expected. I was sort of expecting a cozy mystery type book, but it really isn't! The book really has distinct sections: the 1st section where Maisie does private eye work, and the 2nd section which really is the meat of the book. One gets the feeling during the 1st section that that is all, but the 2nd section is intense and engrossing. Of course, if one hadn't read the 1st, then details in the 2nd would make no sense, and the ease of the connections is necessary and evident. And the character of Maurice makes it evident that the idea of evil is no mystery to Maisie! I went through the "currently reading" of my friends, and discovered that Debbie (I think?) was currently reading a much later "Maisie Dobbs" book, and that prompted me to go through …

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Subjects

  • Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Women private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • London (England) -- Fiction