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So there she was, stuck in a traffic jam by the Pennzoil station in San Rafael, when in a mid-daydream she got it: the character Maisie Dobbs, investigator and psychologist, for a mystery...
Jacqueline Winspear (born 30 April 1955) is a mystery writer, author of the Maisie Dobbs series of books exploring the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.
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As Jacqueline Winspear tells it, Maisie Dobbs appeared unbidden, emerging from London’s Warren Street tube station one spring day in 1929. Winspear saw her stop to chat with a newspaper vendor before pulling out a set of keys and entering a somewhat rundown Georgian building on Fitzroy Square.
April 6, 2018. Jacqueline Winspear was mired in London gridlock back in 2001 when her fictional detective, Maisie Dobbs, popped into her head. “ Stoplights were at red as far as I could see,”...
Jul 10, 2014 · I remember glancing at the back cover plot summary of my review copy of Maisie Dobbs by a then-unknown first-time author named Jacqueline Winspear and thinking, "Eh, this idea seems stale."
Feb 14, 2019 · by Jim Wood February 14, 2019. Author of novels often appearing on the New York Times best-seller list, Jacqueline Winspear was 48 when Maisie Dobbs, her first novel of acclaim, was published. The Kent, England, native emigrated to the United States in 1990 and now lives in Marin.
Nov 30, 2020 · Photo by Stephanie Mohan. “Memoir has always been one of my great literary loves. There’s something about memoir where the personal reflects the universal,” says former longtime Marin resident...
