An Incomplete Revenge
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With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvesttime--even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases.
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A Maisie Dobbs novel
5
PUBLISHED
New York : H. Holt, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780805082159
9780312428181
SUBJECTS
Dobbs, Maisie -- (Fictitious character)
City and town life -- Fiction.
Communities -- Fiction.
Rural crimes -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Rural population -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- London -- Fiction.
Women private investigators -- London -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction.
Kent (England) -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.