Pardonable Lies

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Allison & Busby
• Release : 21 January 2013

London 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton’s son Ralph is really dead. This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Maisie must travel to the former battlefields of northern France, where she served as a nurse in the Great War and where ghosts

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
• Release : 15 February 2011

Maisie Dobbs Bundle #1, Pardonable Lies and Messenger of Truth Books 3 and 4 in the New York Times Bestselling Series "An outstanding historical series . . . deeply empathetic." (The New York Times Book Review) Pardonable Lies, by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs novel #3) In the third novel of this unique and masterly crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
• Release : 01 April 2007

In the third novel of this bestselling series from, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death. A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not

• Author : Alex Rubner
• Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
• Release : 18 June 2013

Politics is a noble, but also a dirty, business. To gain election - and retain office - in a democratic system, politicians are frequently compelled to be dishonest. They engage in benevolent lying because obstruction by stupid voters will otherwise stop them advancing the national interest as they see it.' So claims the author of this eye-opening book, which straddles politics, philosophy, morality and economics. Alex Rubner's own background as an economist advising policy-makers gives authority to his words

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
• Release : 01 April 2010

In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Allison & Busby
• Release : 21 January 2013

London 1931. When controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope is found dead, the police believe it is an open and shut case and his death from a fall is recorded as ‘accidental’. But his sister is not convinced, so she turns to Maisie Dobbs for help, drawn by the investigator’s growing reputation for her unique methods of solving crimes. Moving from the desolate beaches of the English coast to the dark underbelly of post-war London, and full of intriguing characters, Maisie’s

• Author : Kenneth Escott Kirk
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : Agnes Strickland
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1882

• Author : Agnes Strickland,Elisabeth Strickland
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1868

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
• Release : 12 December 2019

Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, has taken on some diverse cases in her time. In Pardonable Lies, she receives an unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton's son Ralph really is dead. In Messenger of Truth when the death of a controversial artist is labelled an open and shut accidental death, Maisie accepts his sister's appeal to discover the truth. In An Incomplete Revenge an apparently straightforward of assignment to investigate a potential land purchase becomes

• Author : Christopher Gill,Timothy Peter Wiseman
• Publisher : Liverpool University Press
• Release : 01 February 1993

This collection of essays explores the key issue of the nature of the boundary between fact and fiction, an issue which has become prominent especially through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and recent work on the rhetorical character of ancient historiography. The collection covers early Greek poetry (E.L. Bowie), Greek and Roman historiography (John Moles and T.P. Wiseman), Plato (Christopher Gill) and the Greek and Roman novel (John Morgan and Andrew Laird), and especially considers

• Author : Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

When Maisie Dobbs is called to a short meeting with Sir Cecil Lawton one summer evening in 1930, little did she realise what she was getting herself into. For Sir Cecil sets her a seemingly impossible challenge. She must prove that his son Ralph, a pilot in the Great War, really did die in action. Maisie's investigation takes her from the world of the English aristocracy, with its secrets and hidden scandals, to the battlefields of France. Not only must she

• Author : Frank Northen Magill
• Publisher : Salem PressInc
• Release : 01 February 1995

Contains 536 essays that examine the most important books of fiction and nonfiction authored by women.

• Author : Susan M. Tierney
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

The 13th annual edition of Guide brings together the wisdom and perspectives of 250 editors, publishers, agents, and writers covering the full range of children's markets and writing techniques.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023