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02241aam a2200301 4500 001 75374632029311E99F6E95F796128E48 003 SILO 005 20181218010534 020 $a 1616954078 020 $a 9781616954079 040 $d SILO 100 $a Winspear, Jacqueline $d 1955- 245 $a Maisie Dobbs. $h Fiction (fic) $c Jacqueline Winspear. 264 1 $a New York $b Soho $c 2003 300 $a 294 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 $a Maisie Dobbs. $v 1. 520 $a Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found -- and lost -- an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different. In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade. 650 $a Women private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction. 600 $a Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. 655 $a Historical fiction. 008 s2003 941 $a 5 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20210107011603.0 952 $l CUPC586 $d 20200211014126.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20190824011038.0 952 $l JDPC145 $d 20190424012341.0 952 $l KEPC896 $d 20181218013158.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=75374632029311E99F6E95F796128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search