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A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Book 18)
London, 1945. Four orphans are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled under Luftwaffe bombing. Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a soldier has taken shelter with the group. Maisie's quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.