Maisie Dobbs #8
Harper
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Featuring: Maisie Dobbs
352 pages ISBN: 0061727679 EAN: 9780061727672 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Maisie Dobbs's first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professorβand leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs's career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government."
When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.
To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparteiβthe Nazi Partyβin Britain.
As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, this pivotal chapter in the life of Maisie Dobbs foreshadows new challenges and powerful enemies facing the psychologist and investigatorβand will engage new readers and loyal fans of this "outstanding" series (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).
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