Princess Elizabeth's spy
Subtitle: a Maggie Hope novel
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
Publisher: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780553593624; 9780553907575
Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical; Fiction; Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Tutors and tutoring; Education of princesses; FICTION / Historical; History
Description: "Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals  against an international plot--one that could change the course of history.  As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous--and deadly--than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family"--