"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes hi
Elegy for Eddie
β Scribed by Jacqueline Winspear
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;AudioGO
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear's acclaimed, bestselling mystery seriesβ"less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie" (USA Today)βMaisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, or other Maisie Dobbs mysteriesβand an ideal place for new readers to enter the seriesβElegy for Eddie is an incomparable work of intrigue and ingenuity, full of intimate descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars, from one of the most highly acclaimed masters of mystery, Jacqueline Winspear.
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