num_pages: 292
description: Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas.Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.
language: English
title: Maisie Dobbs
titlecomplete: Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
characters: Iris Rigson, Priscilla Evernden, Maurice Blanche, Billy Beale, Simon Lynch, Lady Rowan Compton, Frankie Dobbs, Lord Julian Compton, Enid (Maisie Dobbs), Maisie Dobbs
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Crime, Historical Mystery, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 107302
places: United Kingdom, England, London, England, Kent, England
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: Penguin