Maisie Dobbs
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Compact discs.
Read by Rita Barrington.
Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found -- and lost -- an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different. In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade...
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
excellent audio book submitted by chelseavp on July 30, 2018, 10:05pm I love the Maisie Dobbs series and the audio books are excellent. Great mysteries, great strong female character, and great reading voice.
SERIES
A Maisie Dobbs novel
1
PUBLISHED
Ashland, Or : Blackstone Audio, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 8 sound discs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1504606973
9781504606974
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Barrington, Rita,
SUBJECTS
Dobbs, Maisie -- (Fictitious character)
Women private investigators -- London -- Fiction.
Lady's maids -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.