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A dangerous place : a novel
- Title
- A dangerous place : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.
- Author
- Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- Contributor biographical information
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-2672 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability -- and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on "the Rock" -- arguably Britain's most important strategic territory -- and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.
- Series Statement
- A Maisie Dobbs novel
- Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- Maisie Dobbs novel.
- Subject
- Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) > Fiction
- Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character)
- Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939)
- 1936-1939
- Women private investigators > Fiction
- Murder > Investigation > Fiction
- Sephardim > Fiction
- Photographers > Crimes against > Fiction
- Murder > Investigation
- Sephardim
- Women private investigators
- Gibraltar > Fiction
- Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Fiction
- Gibraltar
- Spain
- Genre/Form
- Crime & mystery.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2672
- ISBN
- 9780062220554
- 0062220551
- LCCN
- 2014504287
- OCLC
- 883145976
- Author
- Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- author.
- Title
- A dangerous place : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.
- Publisher
- New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Maisie Dobbs novelWinspear, Jacqueline, 1955- Maisie Dobbs novel.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1936-1939
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2672