Maisie Dobbs: A Mysterious Profile
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The historical mystery Maisie Dobbs was first published in 2003, introducing readers to an inquisitive, young, English, working-class woman as she opens her own London detective agency following World War I. Jacqueline Winspear’s debut won her the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and led to a New York Times–bestselling series. But just who exactly is Miss Maisie Dobbs?
In this profile, four characters very close to Maisie shed light on the beloved psychologist and investigator. Her father, Francis Dobbs looks back on her childhood and proclaims the pride she instills in him. Her first employer, Lady Rowan Compton, recounts finding a young Maisie studying late one night in her library. Dr. Maurice Blanche, her mentor, discusses her studies and their detective work. And Billy Beale, her assistant, talks about their first meeting during the Great War, as well as what it’s like to work for her. It’s an enlightening read that fans are sure to love.
Praise for Jacqueline Winspear and the Maisie Dobbs Novels
“A detective series to savor.” —Time
“In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift. Maisie Dobbs has not been created—she has been discovered. Such people are always there amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Winspear to come along and reveal them. And what a revelation it is!” —Alexander McCall Smith
“History comes alive when a character you think of as a friend is in the thick of the action. That’s how Jacqueline Winspear keeps her Maisie Dobbs series so fresh.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Maisie’s liveliness of mind, good sense, and kind nature make her a heroine a reader can enjoy spending time with.” —The Boston Globe
“The author gives an intelligent and absorbing picture of the period, providing plentiful details for the history buff without detracting from the riveting mystery. Readers will be eager to see more of the spunky Maisie.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, and To Die but Once, as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.
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Maisie Dobbs
A Mysterious Profile
Jacqueline Winspear
About Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist & Investigator
A collection of personal impressions
from those who know and work with her.
From notes transcribed during a meeting with Mr. Francis Dobbs, father of the psychologist and investigator, Miss Maisie Dobbs.
Given that Mr. Dobbs was reticent about any conversation via telephone, our representative submitted the following report subsequent to engaging Mr. Dobbs as he worked in the garden of his home on the Chelstone Manor Estate, near Tonbridge in Kent. Mr. Dobbs made it quite clear that there would be no tittle-tattling
regarding his daughter’s personal life, adding, And it’ll do you no good to ask me about her work—I never did understand it and I never will!
"People were drawn to our Maisie from the time she was just a babe in arms, and not just because she was a lovely baby either. In Lambeth, where she was born, a new baby wasn’t always welcome in a family, so there’s wasn’t much of a fuss made when people saw a little one being pushed along in a pram on the street. But the thing that people always said,