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Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist??and World War I veteran??in the fourth entry in the bestselling series London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a controversial figure in her own right, isn't so sure. When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out an old classmate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world. Following up on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear here delivers another vivid, thrilling and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs, in Messenger of Truth… (más)
En la nueva entrega de esta emocionante serie, Maisie Dobbs investiga la misteriosa muerte de un controvertido artista. Londres, 1931. El polémico artista Nick Bassington-Hope fallece de repente la noche antes de la inauguración de una exposición de su obra en una famosa galería de Mayfair. La policía dictamina que se trata de un accidente, pero la hermana gemela de Nick, Georgina, una corresponsal de guerra, no está convencida. Cuando las autoridades se niegan a considerar su teoría de que Nick fue víctima de un asesinato, ella busca la ayuda de su compañera de estudios del Girton College, Maisie Dobbs. En una investigación que la lleva a las desoladas playas de Dungeness, en Kent, y al controvertido mundo del arte, Maisie descubre una vez más el legado de la Gran Guerra en una sociedad que lucha por no perder el rumbo.
Fourth book in the Maisie series. It's 1931 and the First World War is no distant memory, still very central in the lives of most of the main characters. But unpleasant political change is in the air, both in England and abroad. Foreshadowing of what is to come... ( )
Georgina Bassington-Hope arrives in Maisie's office at the recommendation of one of their teachers from the girls' school they both attended. Georgina's brother, Nick, was recently found death and while declared accidental, Georgina is less uncertain and asks Maisie to investigate. As Maisie explores the world of artists that Nick lived in, as well as the complex dynamics of the Bassington-Hope family, she'll find that the lingering legacy of the Great War has a role to play in Nick's demise.
Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mysteries continue to be really fantastic reads. With brilliant historical detail, ongoing character growth and development, along with a solid mystery these are great reads for fans of mysteries and historical fiction. ( )
Messenger of Truth (a Maisie Dobbs book), by Jacqueline Winspear opens in England in 1930, but all of the story is a by-product of WWI. The struggles and death of artist Nick Bassington-Hope in trying to find peace and healing with the barbarity of WWI by exposing its horrors via his art drive the storyline to a strange and painful ending. The raging unemployment of veterans and unbearable poverty which allows a toddler to die because medical care is unavailable for her family until the disease is too far gone to save her provides an important subplot. ( )
MESSENGER OF TRUTH is something of a transitional book... the plot hinges on distant conflicts that have no immediacy, and the real issue seems to be whether Maisie will find a way “to move on, to dance with life again” — and, one hopes, to recover her original vocation.
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I am no longer an artist interested and anxious. I am a messanger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn in their lousy souls. -- Paul Nash, Artist 1899-1946
January - You enter the London year - it is cold - it is wet - but there are gulls on the embankment. - from When You Go To London, by H.V. Morton, published 1931
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Dedicated to My Cheef Resurcher (who knows who he is)
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The taxi-cab slowed down alongside the gates of Camden Abbey, a red brick former mansion that seemed even more like a refuge as a bitter sleet swept across the gray forbidding landscape.
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Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist??and World War I veteran??in the fourth entry in the bestselling series London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a controversial figure in her own right, isn't so sure. When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out an old classmate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world. Following up on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear here delivers another vivid, thrilling and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs, in Messenger of Truth
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Londres, 1931. El polémico artista Nick Bassington-Hope fallece de repente la noche antes de la inauguración de una exposición de su obra en una famosa galería de Mayfair. La policía dictamina que se trata de un accidente, pero la hermana gemela de Nick, Georgina, una corresponsal de guerra, no está convencida. Cuando las autoridades se niegan a considerar su teoría de que Nick fue víctima de un asesinato, ella busca la ayuda de su compañera de estudios del Girton College, Maisie Dobbs.
En una investigación que la lleva a las desoladas playas de Dungeness, en Kent, y al controvertido mundo del arte, Maisie descubre una vez más el legado de la Gran Guerra en una sociedad que lucha por no perder el rumbo.