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JUNE 5, 2012

Maisie Dobbs

Visit a much-changed world with the On-the-Road at Starbucks Book Club when we venture to England at the end of WWII to witness Miss Dobbs solve a mystery.   Join us on Tuesday July 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Starbucks in Oakwood to discuss the first in Jacqueline Winspear’s beloved mystery series, Maisie Dobbs.

In 1929, Maisie Dobbs opens her very own London detective agency. Her first job seems to be an open-and-shut case involving a wife’s infidelity. It is, in fact, something quite different and sinister. While reminiscent of the old-fashioned mystery novel, Maisie Dobbs breaks with the conventional pattern. Jacqueline Winspear presents us with a brilliant young sleuth, who has risen from her working-class origins, studied at Cambridge, served as a nurse during the war, and who now solves intimate crimes set against the devastating aftermath of the “War to End All Wars.”

To learn more about our selection, try the Penguin’s Reader’s Guide. We also encourage you to listen to Maureen Corrigan’s review of the book on NPR. For something a bit different, we suggest you read reviews of the book from three literary blog sites:

            The Tea Cozy
            Fat Books and Thin Women
            The Traveler’s Library

To learn more about the author, we suggest reading her biography from Contemporary Authors, made available through our own Gale Biography in Context web site.   Also, visit Jacqueline Winspear’s own web site and her Maisie Dobbs blog.

England was greatly changed after World War II. To learn more about the aftermath of the war, we suggest the following web sites:

The books in the Maisie Dobbs series are available at the library in a variety of formats, including downloadable e-books and audiobooks. Here are links to the series in order:

•	OverDrive App Update
•	Get Ready for Summer
•	Mountains beyond Mountains
•	Planning Your Vegetable Garden
•	Opposing Viewpoints
•	The Accidental Tourist
•	April Is National Poetry Month
•	Book Discussions
•	Great Dayton Flood
•	My Stroke of Insight

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