"London, 1945. Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion, the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft."--
Record details
ISBN:1420519697
ISBN:9781420519693
Physical Description:499 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition:Large print edition.
Publisher:Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.
Large Print Book
