LESSON IN SECRETS.
de Winspear, Jacqueline
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very good in a fine dust jacket (bottom edge bumped, with very short tears to the lower margin of a few pages , toning to edges/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061727679
- ISBN 13
- 9780061727672
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New York:: Harper Collins,, (2011.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a fine dust jacket (bottom edge bumped, with very short tears to the lower margin of a few pages , toning to edges of textblock).. First printing. The 9th novel in the award-winning Maisie Dobbs series, set in England in the years between the two World Wars. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp.
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El Dec 15 2014, CloggieDownunder dijo:
A Lesson In Secrets is the eighth book in the Maisie Dobbs series by British-born American author, Jacqueline Winspear. After being (somewhat ineptly) followed for some ten days, psychologist and investigator, Maisie Dobbs finds herself recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service by Brian Huntley (as was hinted by her late mentor during his last days), to work a job in conjunction with Robbie MacFarlane of Scotland Yard Special Branch. Having signed the Official Secrets Act, she is to pose as a psychology lecturer at The College of St Francis whilst observing for activities that are not in the interest of the Crown. But when she has been there only a week, the Principal of the College, Greville Liddicote, a staunch pacifist, is murdered. And a little research reveals quite a few possible suspects.
While Maisie is away, Billy Beale manages the Investigations business, although he is to some degree distracted by the impending birth of his fourth child. Luckily Maisie is able to convince her reluctant employee to become her tenant in a new cottage in which she invests some of her newfound wealth. A former flatmate comes to Maisie in distress: recently widowed, and with some doubt about the accidental nature of her husband’s death, Sandra accepts a job but remains unsettled. Maisie’s relationship with James Compton encounters a few hurdles.
In this instalment, Winspear touches on conscientious objection, mutiny amongst the troops, Nazism, fraud, organised crime and protection rackets, the role of women in the resistance and a nerve disorder that sounds a lot like Multiple Sclerosis. Maisie is frustrated at the Secret Service’s focus on Communism at the expense of Fascism, and Robert Stratton makes a surprise move. A baby is born and Maisie visits Wandsworth Prison. As always, Winspear blends historical fact with fiction while her plot takes a few twists before the murderer is revealed. It will be interesting to see where the next book, Elegy for Eddie takes this resourceful heroine. Another great read.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 87763
- Título
- LESSON IN SECRETS.
- Autor
- Winspear, Jacqueline
- Formato/Encuadernación
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in a fine dust jacket (bottom edge bumped, with very short tears to the lower margin of a few pages , toning to edges
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0061727679
- ISBN 13
- 9780061727672
- Editorial
- Harper Collins,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2011.)
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mysteries: historical;
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