Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. Were you a fan of the famous PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs? If so, you might enjoy this new mystery series now at the library. As the novel opens, Maisie is preparing to take over a detective agency in 1929 London. Her first case comes quickly-a business man is convinced that his wife is unfaithful. Although Maisie's keen understanding of human nature soon helps her to discover the truth about the case, the details lead her to memories of her own past as a young maid in upper class London and as a nurse on the battlefields of World War I. Additional volumes of the series are also available.