Status
Available
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Series
Publication
New York, N. Y. : HarperCollins, 2011.
Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
Media reviews
The plot of A Lesson in Secrets is not so much suspenseful as intellectually provocative.
Maisie’s current assignment finds her working undercover as a junior lecturer in philosophy at a Cambridge college.... British intelligence suspects that the school’s predominantly foreign student body might be inculcating idealistic British youth with radical ideas imported from Russia. But
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Maisie, who is prescient in the way heroines tend to be in historical fiction, is more concerned about the impact of National Socialism in Germany. The story isn’t half bad, but Maisie’s sortie into group psychology can’t touch the sensitive work she once did with shell-shocked soldiers.
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Awards
Macavity Award (Nominee — Historical Mystery — 2012)
Agatha Award (Nominee — Historical Novel — 2011)
Lefty Award (Nominee — 2012)
Language
Original publication date
2011-03-22
Physical description
323 p.; 24 inches
ISBN
9780061727672