Lady Rowan finds her one night in the library, looking for books to read – reading and learning are some of Maisie's truest passions. Though her father sent her to make a good living and to contribute to the family, Maisie, however, is suited to more than life as a housemaid. Maisie begins her life as a maid for Lady Rowan, living in her home, Belgravia Mansion. Part of the mystery of the book surrounds Maisie's life, and particularly a romance that she begins with a soldier Captain Lynch, whom she follows into war when she takes a position as a nurse on the English front. The second part of the novel takes place much later, in 1929, after the war is over. This part of the narrative begins in 1910, years before the First World War. Maisie Dobbs is split into two disparate parts – the first part of the novel follows Maisie as a young girl, who at age thirteen loses her mother and has to help her father make ends meet by becoming a maid in the house of the socialite and philanthropist Lady Rowan Compton. Set between 19, the book features quirky female private investigator Maisie Dobbs as she solves crimes in post-World-War-I era England. Maisie Dobbs (2003) is the first book of fourteen in a historical mystery novel series by Jacquline Winspear.
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