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By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained - by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed, just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management - a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come.

Londres, 1930. Desde que abrió una agencia de investigación privada en Londres, ha habido muchos cambios en la vida de Maisie Dobbs: tiene la oficina en Fitzroy Square, Billy Beale se ha convertido en su asistente y conduce un coche rojo. Ha demostrado su valía como investigadora, e incluso se ha ganado el respeto del inspector Stratton de Scotland Yard, todo un logro para una mujer que pasó de sirvienta a detective. En la primavera de 1930, Maisie recibe un encargo de Joseph Waite, un hombre rico hecho a sí mismo, para que encuentre a su hija, Charlotte, una heredera fugitiva.

Birds of a Feather finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another adventure in London. It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman’s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.

A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. The private, quiet “Miss White" as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a "grace and favor" property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation.

In the third novel of this best-selling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case.

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work.

In the third novel of this best-selling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

Um dos mais ricos comerciantes da Inglaterra, Joseph Waite sempre deu o melhor para a filha, Charlotte, mas jamais permitiu que ela tivesse uma vida livre. Na primavera de 1930, quando ela foge de casa, Waite mantém o caso longe da polícia e procura os serviços de Maisie Dobbs, conhecida por sua discrição e seus poderes de dedução.

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White—veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity—when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind.

En el verano del año 1931, la situación económica en Londres sigue siendo muy difícil, y en los últimos meses la detective privada y psicóloga Maisie Dobbs ha empezado a preocuparse por la falta de trabajo. Sin embargo, ha aprovechado el tiempo libre para explorar sus habilidades creativas y apuntarse a un taller de telares. Maisie se siente aliviada cuando a principios de septiembre recibe una llamada de James Compton. El hijo de lord y lady Compton planea adquirir una fábrica de ladrillos y varios terrenos adjuntos en un remoto pueblo del condado de Kent, y le pide a Maisie que investigue la reputación del actual propietario.

Londres, 1930. Maisie Dobbs tiene su propia agencia de detectives en Londres y no le faltan los clientes. Por una parte, Scotland Yard le pide su colaboración para la resolución de un asesinato del que acusan a una joven campesina, y sir Cecil Lawton, un afamado abogado que acaba de enviudar, le encomienda a Maisie una delicada misión: confirmar la muerte de su hijo, desaparecido durante la Gran Guerra. Una nueva entrega del mejor cozy crime internacional.

Londres, 1931. La noche antes de la inauguración de una exposición de su obra en una famosa galería de Mayfair, el controvertido artista Nick Bassington-Hope fallece de repente. La policía dictamina que fue un accidente, pero la hermana gemela de Nick, Georgina, una corresponsal de guerra y una figura polémica, no está convencida. Cuando las autoridades se niegan a considerar su teoría de que Nick fue víctima de un asesinato, Georgina busca la ayuda de su compañera de estudios del Girton College, Maisie Dobbs.