Messenger of Truth is a mystery novel in the Maisie Dobbs series by author Jacqueline Winspear.
Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist. World War I veteran – in the fourth installment of London’s best-selling series, 1931.

At the famous Mayfair gallery, controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope has passed away. Police believe it was an accident, but Nick’s twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and controversial figure, isn’t so sure. When authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina turns to an old classmate from the University of Girton, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help.

Nick is a World War I veteran, and before long, the case leads Maisie to the deserted beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underworld of the city’s art world. .

Jacqueline Winspear here delivers another vivid, thrilling and totally original episode in Maisie Dobbs’ life in Messenger of Truth.

Maisie Dobbs is one of the newly-independent women in England, forced to become so because so many millions of men were killed or damaged during the Great War, they had no alternative to supporting themselves. She becomes an inquiry agent — and this is one of her cases. She’s also a psychologist, and througout the book, her psychological insights help her find the answers she was hired to find.

If you like ‘period’ mysteries — Anne Perry, Charles Todd, Victoria Thompson, Michael Cox — you’ll like this series.

I like the detection alpects of these books, of course I do. But beyond that, it’s all the tidbits of information the author includes — how people lived, dressed, spoke, thought and interacted — that adds to the charm.

A bunus in the audio version is a half-hour interview with the author, who tells how hard she works to keep the books technically accurate. Of particular interest were her comments about how words bounce back and forth between the continents, coming into vogue here or there, at various times throughout the centuries. For example, the word “smog” was in use in 1904 London — we just think it’s a modern term.

• Messenger of Truth

• A Maisie Dobbs Novel
• By: Jacqueline Winspear

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