| #429278 in Books | PowerbookMedic | 2004-05-25 | 2004-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.75 x.56 x5.10l,.50 | File type: PDF | 294 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| "A Perfect Storm" a review by a 73 year old male|By Kenneth C. Mahieu|"Maisie Dobbs" (MD) is the first in a series of thirteen crime fiction(?) novels by Jacqueline Winspear featuring her ace investigator, Maisie Dobbs. I became attracted to this series by a review I read this summer on the Crime Fiction Lovers blog of her current release, "In This Grave Hour" , which combines|From School Library Journal|Adult/High School-Maisie is 14 when her mother dies, and she must go into service to help her father make ends meet. Her prodigious intellect and the fact that she is sneaking into the manor library at night to read Hume, Kierkegaard,
Hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths.
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 ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Maisie Dobbs (Book 1) | Jacqueline Winspear. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.