trade-size paperback.

from the back cover:
In the summer of 1932, the career of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government."

When the college's controversial pacifist founder, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, however, Maisie is directed to stand back as her colleagues in Scotland Yard spearhead the investigation. But she soon discovers that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty members and students under her surveillance.

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This book is a good story of murder and revenge. The heroine is Maisie Dobbs and the tale is set in the early 1930s. Maisie is a PI who is recruited by Scotland Yard to attend a new college devoted to peace in the Cambridge University system. The founder of the college is Dr. Greville Liddicote famous for his belief in pacifism following the horror of World War I. Maisie becomes a philosophy teacher at the school sending reports to Scotland Yard . She is shocked with Liddicote is found strangled to death in his office. He is the author of "The Peaceful Little Warriors". This children's book became famous because of its readership of troops in the trenches of France. This doesn’t make sense to me, because how did these men find time to read a children’s book? Who would have given up precious space for a book instead of bullets? A secondary plot deals with the murder of Maisie's friend Sandra's husband Eric. The novel draws the reader into Great Britain in the 1930s as the threat of Fascism reared its ugly head in Germany. We are, also, made privy to the love affair between Maisie and the wealthy James Compton. I find the fact that Maisie so easily sleeps with James out of character with the proper Miss Dobbs. This was not acceptable of respectable women during this era. What would this do to her business (which has been her priority)? The violence in this book does occur offstage.

After I read book #9, I am sending the series to another BCer.

Enjoy! KTM RABCK to barbieq233

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