Maisie Dobbs
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Introducing the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs, private investigator in 1920s London. Her first case combines a gripping investiation wiht a moving portrait of love and war. It marks the beginning of a wonderful neOw detective series.
London, 1929. Having set herself up as a private investigator, Maisie Dobbs is relieved when her first client arrives. Christopher Davenham suprects that his wife is conducting an affair. But Maisie's investigations confound her expectations at every turn. And she is forced by her findings to revisit her own turbulent experience of the Great War. For Maisie, the boundary between her private and professional life is suddenly blurred.
This is a world still reeling in the aftermath of war, a world in which many secrets lie buried. But Maisie is determined to hint down the truth, however painful it might be...
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Ich habe das Buch vor kurzem gelesen, es ist ein schönes und interessantes Buch. Vor allem die Vorgänge und Empfindungen der Personen im Zusammenhang mit dem ersten Weltkrieg sind eindrücklich geschildert. Die kriminalistische Handlung hingegen plätschert ein bisschen dahin. Alles in allem aber dennoch 7 Punkte.
Introducing the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs, private investigator in 1920s London. Her first case combines a gripping investiation wiht a moving portrait of love and war. It marks the beginning of a wonderful neOw detective series.
London, 1929. Having set herself up as a private investigator, Maisie Dobbs is relieved when her first client arrives. Christopher Davenham suprects that his wife is conducting an affair. But Maisie's investigations confound her expectations at every turn. And she is forced by her findings to revisit her own turbulent experience of the Great War. For Maisie, the boundary between her private and professional life is suddenly blurred.
This is a world still reeling in the aftermath of war, a world in which many secrets lie buried. But Maisie is determined to hint down the truth, however painful it might be...
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Ich habe das Buch vor kurzem gelesen, es ist ein schönes und interessantes Buch. Vor allem die Vorgänge und Empfindungen der Personen im Zusammenhang mit dem ersten Weltkrieg sind eindrücklich geschildert. Die kriminalistische Handlung hingegen plätschert ein bisschen dahin. Alles in allem aber dennoch 7 Punkte.
