Synopsis:

In Winspear’s winning fourth historical to star British psychologist and P.I. Maisie Dobbs (after 2005’s Pardonable Lies), Georgiana Bassington-Hope, a pioneering female war reporter who was a classmate of Maisie’s at Girton College (Cambridge), asks Maisie to investigate the death of her twin brother, Nicholas Bassington-Hope, a World War I veteran and artist. The police have ruled Nick’s fall from a scaffold at a Mayfair gallery before his masterpiece could be unveiled an accident, but Georgiana suspects foul play. As Maisie delves into the art world and the dead man’s unusual family, the author provides an insightful look at class divisions and dangerous political undercurrents of homegrown fascism in early 1930s Britain.

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Topics/Categories:

Historical Fiction, Mystery, Women's Interest

Type of Work:

Book Novel

Publishers:

Picador USA

Purchase From:

Amazon

Original Publish Date:

2007-06-12

ISBNs:

0312426852