The American Agent

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / Mystery / Winspear, Jacqueline
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Read by Orlagh Cassidy.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice, Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death. As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

the american agent submitted by maggie anderson on February 26, 2019, 7:40am make sure you get the latest installment of Maisie Dobbs

WWII continues submitted by camelsamba on June 25, 2023, 3:36pm In this installment of the Maisie Dobbs series, WWII continues, and certain people are trying to counter America's isolationist tendencies. In general, I enjoy this series. But as usual with a series, different volumes will be better than others. This one was good, but not the best. One of the things that bothered me is that the solution of the Saxon murder seemed to come out of the blue. We are never really told what led Maisie to make those inferences. Did she notice the culprit was left-handed by startling them? Or was it the clothes? There's a reference to an off-hand remark clarifying things; if so, what was it? Unsatisfying.