Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel - Rilegato

Jacqueline Winspear

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ISBN 10: 0062191586 ISBN 13: 9780062191588

Casa editrice: Harper

Riassunto

In the newest episode of the New York Times bestselling series, an investigation into the killing of a local man from Maisie's childhood neighborhood leads the sleuth from her own doorstep to London's halls of power.

Late January, 1933. Maisie Dobbs is met at her office by a group of costermongers, men whom she'd known in childhood when her father worked alongside them, selling fruit and vegetables from a horse-drawn cart along the street of London. The men have come to see her about Eddie Pettit, a man known to them all as one who could calm the most challenging horse; a man considered slow by those who knew him, but who was gentle and kind, perhaps more boy than man. They want Maisie to discover the truth behind Eddie's violent death, which they believe to be suspicious, yet has been all but ignored by the police.

Maisie's investigation takes her well beyond the streets of Lambeth, where Eddie lived; before long, she is following threads of intrigue to John Otterburn, a powerful press baron; to a politician named Winston Churchill--considered a has been residing in the hinterlands of power-- and, indeed, to the writer Douglas Partridge, the husband of her dearest friend, Priscilla.

Elegy for Eddie is the story of a London affected by the march to war, set in step many years before the first gun is fired. An innocent in the shadow of power, Eddie is at the center of one of the most poignant and affecting Maisie Dobbs novels to date.

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L'autore:

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other national bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.

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• Editore: Harper
• ISBN 10: 0062191586
• ISBN 13: 9780062191588
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352