Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2) (original 2004; edition 2005)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Series: Maisie Dobbs (2)

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Title:	Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2)
Authors:	Jacqueline Winspear
Info:	Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005), Paperback, 336 pages
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Another great book in the Maisie Dobbs series. I didn't give it the full 5 just because the story was more straight mystery than the previous one. But still beautifully written with a great plot too. Can't wait for the 3rd! (

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akmargie | Apr 4, 2013 |

Second Maisie Dobbs mystery, and a book I am struggling desperately to remember. Ah, yes. There are several interesting twists involved, but I think I pinpointed my problem with the first book. I'm not very fond of Maisie's detecting style. I mean, mixing in a bit of psychology is fine, but there were so few actual clues and so much standing around soaking in the atmosphere and then making apparently correct deductions from it. I'm afraid that for this classic-British-mystery fan, it was a bit much. I do have the third book out; we'll see if I keep having this problem. (Dec 20110

maureene87 | Apr 4, 2013 |

http://blogmybooks.blogspot.com/2007/10/birds-of-feather-by-jacqueline-winspear.... (

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SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 |

Maisie Dobbs is at it again, this time attempting to find a runaway debutante who does not want to be found. More of Maisie's character is revealed to us as she begins to connect the runaway case with the murders of two other women. After finishing this book, I can't wait to see what Maisie will do in the next book! (

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molliekay | Mar 30, 2013 |

The second work in the Maisie Dobbs series, this was written well and had plot twists that illuminated different parts of life and culture during WWI and the following years that I had no idea existed. (

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...Maisie makes it her business to help the speechless survivors of war -- the women who silently visit the graves, the fathers who cannot speak their sons' names, even those broken souls who hope that murdering the living might bring back the dead. That sensibility makes her a heroine to cherish.

Not that Maisie is some glum, humorless missionary. Well, humorless, yes, but glum, not at all.

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How will you fare, sonny, how will you fare

In the far off winter night

When you sit by the fire in the old man's chair

And your neighbours talk of the fight?

Will you slink away, as it were from a blow,

Your old head shamed and bent?

Or say, "I was not the first to go,

But I went, thank God, I went"?

-- from the song "Fall In" by Harold Begbie, 1914

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To Kenneth Leech
1919-2002

During my childhood I was lucky to have Ken Leech as my teacher. In the years of my growing up and into adulthood, I was privileged to count him among my friends.

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Maisie Dobbs shuffled the papers on her desk into a neat pile and placed them in a manila folder.

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Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London “between the wars.” It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman’s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.

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Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War.… (more)

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