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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

Jacqueline Winspear

Start date: April 1, 2010

Finish date: April 30, 2010

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Dec 13, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it did not like it

Shelves: historical-fiction, mystery, fiction, novels, ultimate-reading-list

I have a fondness for historical mysteries and I'm something of an Anglophile, so I certainly would have been predisposed to like this story about a female private detective who sets herself up in London in 1929.

The first strike was the writing style--there are point of view slips and it's overwritten, and reminded me from the first of romance aisle writing. In the opening pages the heroine is described as having "eyes the color of midnight in summer, an intense shade that seemed to him to be d ...more

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Mar 03, 2015 Brooke rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Maisie is not your typical private eye in England's late 1920's, as you realize when she tells her first client that he must agree to discussing what he will do with the information she provides him as part of the condition for using her services. Flashbacks into Maisie's life give us a feel for her working class upbringing and life at the front in World War I. ...more

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