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Leaving everything most loved : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.
- Title
- Leaving everything most loved : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.
- Author
- Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Harper, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6123.I575 L43 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 339 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
- Series Statement
- Maisie Dobbs novel
- Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- Maisie Dobbs novel
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- London, 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in a South London canal, her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. Before her death, Usha was staying at an ayah's hostel, a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out. As Maisie learns, Usha was different from the hostel's other lodgers. But with this discovery comes new danger -- soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out. As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture, her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case. And at the same time her lover, James Compton, gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore ...
- ISBN
- 9780062049605 (hbk.)
- 0062049607 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 820149122
- SCSB-11703575
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library