![]() ![]() ![]() When Maisie looks into the disappearance she finds a chilling link to Stratton’s murder case, and to the terrible legacy of The Great War. ![]() Waite’s instructions are to find his daughter and bring her home. His domineering ways have driven her off before, and now she’s bolted again. Over the course of 16 novels, Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear’s field nurse turned detective, has inspired millions of readers with her patriotism, love for family and moral fortitude. The book deals with the suicide and murder of women who have been friends for years but since the end of World War I have developed different lives. The author is English born Jacqueline Winspear. The woman is the daughter of Joseph Waite, a wealthy self-made man who has lavished her with privilege but kept her in a gilded cage. Birds of a Feather is the second volume in the Maisie Dobbs detective series. Stratton is investigating a murder case in Coulsden, while Maisie has been summoned to Dulwich to find a runaway heiress. ![]() She has proven herself as a psychologist and investigator, and has even won over Detective Inspector Stratton of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad-an admirable achievement for a woman who worked her way from servant to scholar to sleuth, and who also served as a battlefield nurse in the Great War. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-go-lucky Billy Beale. An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. ![]()
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