Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Mystery - Couverture souple

'In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift. Maisie Dobbs has not been created - she has been discovered. Such people are always there amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Winspear to come along and reveal them. And what a revelation it is!' (Alexander McCall Smith)

'These books are not only good mysteries but enlightening chunks of social history' (Kaufman on Crime, Scotsman)

The British counterpart to Alexander McCall Smith's The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Associated Press)

Iimmensely readable ... a vivid new addition to crime fiction (Daily Mail)

A heroine to cherish (New York Times)

A fine new sleuth for the twenty-first century (Elizabeth George)

Even if detective stories aren't your thing, you'll love Maisie Dobbs (New Woman)

'A new Maisie Dobbs mystery is always a cause for celebration... 'Messenger of Truth' [is] fiendishly entertaining'. (Time Out)

London, 1931. Nicholas 'Nick' Bassington-Hope, a controversial artist and veteran of The Great War, and now on the cusp of fame, is found dead. His death from a fall on the night before a much-anticipated exhibition of his work at a famed Mayfair gallery is recorded as 'accidental' - yet the victim's twin sister, a former Girton student and wartime journalist who disguised herself as a man to get close to the battlefield, comes to Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, for help.

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Georgina Bassington-Hope believes her brother was murdered. Maisie takes on the case, which soon takes her from the underbelly of London's art world to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent. But her immersion in her work could make her lose more than she bargained for, while an unexpected visitor urgently needs her help...