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THE MAPPING OF LOVE AND DEATH
de Jacqueline Winspear
- Nuevo
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Brand New/Brand New
- ISBN 10
- 0749040785
- ISBN 13
- 9780749040789
- Librería
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Mission, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
The story opens in August 1914 in the Santa Ynez Valley in California. Michael Clifton—youngest son of an Englishman who had emigrated to America when he was in his late teens, in search of his fortune—has just purchased a tract of land he believes is rich with oil. Fate steps in when Michael learns Britain is going to war in Europe. In a moment of loyalty to his father's homeland, he decides to travel to England to enlist for service.
In the spring of 1932, after Michael's remains are discovered in France, his wealthy parents hire Maisie Dobbs to find the woman—identified only as "The English Nurse"—who wrote a series of love letters discovered among Michael's belongings.
The investigation takes Maisie from London's most exclusive drawing rooms to its most downtrodden neighborhoods, forcing her to wrestle with memories of serving as a nurse in the Great War and of the passionate wartime romance that ended in tragedy. But as she delves into what she discovers to be a long-hidden crime, the investigator realizes unearthing buried secrets can lead to present-day danger.
Reseñas
The Mapping of Love and Death is the seventh book in the Maisie Dobbs series by British-born American author, Jacqueline Winspear. Psychologist and investigator, Maisie Dobbs is engaged by a Boston couple, Edward and Martha Clifton, whose youngest son, Michael, died in the trenches in France in 1917. Not until fifteen years later were his remains found, and with them, letters from an English Nurse.
Michael was a cartographer who had just spent part of his inheritance on land in California that he felt sure bore oil. When the autopsy report shows that he was murdered, Maisie is asked to track down his unnamed nurse and, if she can, to find his murderer. To distract her from her task, James Compton returns from Canada for good, her mentor, Maurice Blanche becomes increasingly frail, and Billy Beal is understandably apprehensive about Doreen’s return from hospital.
This instalment explores the vital role of cartographers in war, as well as the important contribution of the many Nursing Units, and the purpose of cinematographers on the front lines. Maisie has to deal with DI Caldwell now that Stratton has gone to Special Branch; she is mugged, goes to car races, visits the School of Military Engineers and more than one hospital. The value of post-traumatic counselling is highlighted, and Winspear drags several red herrings through her plot to keep the reader guessing on more than one front. The final chapters see great changes wrought in Maisie’s personal life and presage possible major alterations in her career. Once again, an excellent read that will have readers seeking out the next book in the series, A Lesson In Secrets.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Darleen Billy
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2391411
- Título
- THE MAPPING OF LOVE AND DEATH
- Autor
- Jacqueline Winspear
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Brand New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0749040785
- ISBN 13
- 9780749040789
- Editorial
- Allison & Busby
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2011
- Páginas
- 382 pages
- Palabras clave
- The Mapping of Love And Death, Jacqueline Winspear, #7-Maisie Dobbs, Historical Fiction, Urban Fiction