Elegy For Eddie - Couverture rigide

Winspear, Jacqueline

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ISBN 10 : 0749012145 ISBN 13 : 9780749012144

Editeur : Allison & Busby, 2012

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Maisie Dobbs—psychologist, investigator, and "one of the great fictional heroines, equal parts haunted and haunting" (Parade)—returns in a chilling adventure, the latest chapter in Jacqueline Winspear's bestselling series.

Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden—sellers of fruit and vegetables on the streets of London—Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are deeply skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie—and why?

Maisie Dobbs' father, Frankie, had been a costermonger, so she had known the men since childhood. She remembers Eddie fondly and is determined to offer her help. But it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning the truth behind Eddie's death. Plunging into the investigation, Maisie begins her search for answers on the working-class streets of Lambeth where Eddie had lived and where she had grown up. The inquiry quickly leads her to a callous press baron; a has-been politician named Winston Churchill, lingering in the hinterlands of power; and, most surprisingly, to Douglas Partridge, the husband of her dearest friend, Priscilla. As Maisie uncovers lies and manipulation on a national scale, she must decide whether to risk it all to see justice done.

The story of a London affected by the march to another war years before the first shot is fired and of an innocent victim caught in the crossfire, Elegy for Eddie is Jacqueline Winspear's most poignant and powerful novel yet.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the newest episode of the New York Times bestselling series, an investigation into the killing of a local man from Maisie's childhood neighborhood leads the sleuth from her own doorstep to London's halls of power.

Late January, 1933. Maisie Dobbs is met at her office by a group of costermongers, men whom she'd known in childhood when her father worked alongside them, selling fruit and vegetables from a horse-drawn cart along the street of London. The men have come to see her about Eddie Pettit, a man known to them all as one who could calm the most challenging horse; a man considered slow by those who knew him, but who was gentle and kind, perhaps more boy than man. They want Maisie to discover the truth behind Eddie's violent death, which they believe to be suspicious, yet has been all but ignored by the police.

Maisie's investigation takes her well beyond the streets of Lambeth, where Eddie lived; before long, she is following threads of intrigue to John Otterburn, a powerful press baron; to a politician named Winston Churchill--considered a has been residing in the hinterlands of power-- and, indeed, to the writer Douglas Partridge, the husband of her dearest friend, Priscilla.

Elegy for Eddie is the story of a London affected by the march to war, set in step many years before the first gun is fired. An innocent in the shadow of power, Eddie is at the center of one of the most poignant and affecting Maisie Dobbs novels to date.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allison & Busby
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749012145
• ISBN 13: 9780749012144
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352