![]() ![]() ![]() There is a touch too much serendipity in Maisie’s investigation for my taste for example, she just happens to be driving past a house when a significant figure emerges, and the narrative is also slowed by digressions into Maisie’s home life, although fans of the series may welcome this. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and it emerges that there is a link between all these events. Through him, Maisie learns of the upcoming visit to England of U.S. She consults Maisie Dobbs, now conveniently remarried to U.S. ![]() Checking out the area, she discovers an American serviceman bound and gagged in a deserted barn and learns that his companion is missing. Later she wonders if a similar incident could have been the cause of the fatal crash of another ferry pilot. When Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot, is ferrying a new Spitfire to its destination, she is shocked to see a figure on the ground shooting at it. This is the seventeenth book in Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, which charts the life and development of the eponymous heroine from her beginnings as a self-made psychologist/private detective in the aftermath of World War One to the ‘present day’ of September 1942. ![]()
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