num_pages: 311
description: 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.
language: English
title: Maisie Dobbs
titlecomplete: Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
characters: Priscilla Evernden, Lord Julian Compton, Maisie Dobbs, Frankie Dobbs, Iris Rigson, Maurice Blanche, Enid (Maisie Dobbs), Simon Lynch, Billy Beale, Lady Rowan Compton
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Adult, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 107272
places: England, London, England, Kent, England, United Kingdom
series: Maisie Dobbs
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: John Murray