Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries (Paperback)) - Softcover

[A] deft debut novel... Romantic readers sensing a story-within-a-story won?t be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. ("The New York Times") The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency... might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart. ...Winspear, who intends to write a series featuring Maisie Dobbs, has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more. (The Associated Press) REVIEW [Maisie Dobbs] catches the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman. ("The Chicago Tribune")

"[A] deft debut novel... Romantic readers sensing a story-within-a-story won't be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment." --The New York Times
"The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency... might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart.... Winspear, who intends to write a series featuring Maisie Dobbs, has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more." --The Associated Press
"[Maisie Dobbs] catches the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman." --The Chicago Tribune

In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I. A first novel. Reprint.