Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she ...
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Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn t ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, You will be alone in a most dangerous place, she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie s arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar s Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on the Rock arguably Britain s most important strategic territory and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way."
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Maisie Dobbs, 11. Audience: General/trade. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. Stated 1st edition with complete number line starting with 1. DJ has some minor general wear. 8vo; 320 pages.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Maisie Dobbs Mysteries. Audience: General/trade. pristine copy, no marks, my personal copy, well cared for.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Inscribed By the Author Maisie Dobbs is in Gibraltar in 1937, where she investigates murder and draws the attention of the British Secret Service. Third printing. Spine ends gently bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a 1/4" tear and crease to the upper front flap fold, in Brodart. Inscribed to Lena and signed by Winspear on the title page.
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Near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed "To Richard" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket is fine. Book is fine except for faint toning to the edges of the pageblock. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Maisie Dobbs, 11. Audience: General/trade. A promotional postcard signed "Maisie" (the protagonist of the novel) is laid in. A Maisie Dobbs mystery by the Macavity Award-, Agatha Award-, and Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award-winning author of 'The Care and Management of Lies' and 'A Sunlit Weapon'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Maisie Dobbs Mysteries. Audience: General/trade. Sticker on front dust jacket " Politics and Prose Signed by the Author"
