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Maisie Dobbs: psychologist, investigator, and "one of the great fictional heroines, equivalent parts haunted and haunting" (Parade) comes back in a chilling experience, the latest chapter in Jacqueline Winspear's best-selling series. Early April 1933: To the costermongers of Covent Garden - vendors of fruit and veggies on the pavements of London - Eddie Pettit was a light heart and soul with a near-magical present for dealing with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent mishap, the grieving costers are deeply skeptical about the reason for his death. Who would want to get rid of Eddie - and just why? Maisie Dobbs' daddy, Frankie, have been a costermonger, so she acquired known the men since childhood. She remembers Eddie fondly and is determined to offer her help. Nonetheless it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally identified to avoid her from learning the truth behind Eddie's fatality. Plunging into the investigation, Maisie commences her seek out answers on the working-class pavements of Lambeth where Eddie acquired resided and where she acquired grown up. The inquiry quickly leads her to a callous press baron; a has-been politician called Winston Churchill, lingering in the hinterlands of ability; and, most remarkably, to Douglas Partridge, the man of her dearest friend, Priscilla. As Maisie uncovers is placed and manipulation over a national scale, she must make a decision whether to risk it all to see justice done. The story of your London influenced by the march to some other war years prior to the first shot is terminated and of an innocent sufferer captured in the crossfire, Elegy for Eddie is Jacqueline Winspear's most poignant and powerful book yet.
