**Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial
artist--and World War I veteran--in the fourth entry in the bestselling
series from Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth.
**
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 infamous figure in her own
right, isn't convinced.
When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was
murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate 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.
Maisie once again uncovers the perilous legacy of the Great War in a
society struggling to recollect itself. But to solve the mystery of
Nick's death, Maisie will have to keep her head as the forces behind the
artist's fall come out of the shadows to silence her.
Following on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear
delivers another vivid, thrilling, and utterly unique episode in the
life of Maisie Dobbs.