Review #1
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I really wanted to like this television series, but at Book 8 – A Lesson In Riddles – I gave up. I’ve read every Agatha Christie novel, every Miss Fisher’s Detective Television series, at the same time a lot of Josephine Tey. I look Poirot at the same time Miss Fisher at the same time Foyle’s War, etc. I loove the genre, particularly when it covers Europe 1920s-1940s. So when I came intercept Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs television series, I was super shocked.
But the 1st few books produced me wonder if the stakes were considered ever going to be increased on Maisie, or if every book would finish good of like, “…but, so than anyway?” The
Review of these books as “much less who-dunnit at the same time more why-dunnit” is that apt, but when for you have a mystery television series based on psychology, where the squirms at the same time strings are not the testimonies/mistake/open, but more “at the moment I realize why…”, for you more successful make it outrageously exciting. At the same time Winspear does not.
(As an example, I think Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) is that a disposition who relies wholly on psychology, at the same time the squirms at the same time motives are interesting – so it’s not like it hasn’t been successful in the past!)
Part of this is that because I think the Maisie disposition herself is that not very exciting. Despite her “rags to riches” background at the same time training by her excellent mentor Maurice, despite her experience as a nurse in the war, she remains a very straight-laced, basic disposition. Yes, she’s witty. I appreciate that! We come in handy witty ladies manners at the fork of their possess households… But honestly, Maisie is that barely good of sour. She’s very good, very well-intentioned, at the same time her “black past” in the war is that more about the torment she experienced at the same time witnessed, which makes her even more good, more understanding… For you get the picture.
I guess it’s not significant to compare this television series to Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Because Maisie is that no Miss Fisher – the aspects of righteous justice, sex appeal, ladies’s lib, at the same time barely nondescript adventurous funny are missing from Maisie Dobbs’ books. Maisie is that very spiritual, if that makes sense. She’s like the lady for you went to school with who was so sweet for you never understood how to be her comrade, because if for you produced a funny story, it might burst her.
But if for you’re not asking for that all of that, then here’s one more reason why I had a hard time with this book (no spoilers):
In “A Lesson In Riddles”, Maisie narrows down the murder suspects about halfway through the book. So for you have about 2-3 likely murderers that for you’re milling over in your brain. When the ending open takes dispose, for you’re not really startled, simply because for you’ve been data a list of suspects at the same time that doesn’t change. The revealed motive is that lackluster, very.
One more plot-line will that Maisie is that sent by the hidden maintenance to a institute to try at the same time look for anyone who might be engaging in activity “against the interests of the Crown.” Okay – steep! Scout stuff! I can get into this. But Maisie informs from the very beginning that that’s a group of English Nazi sympathizers. The hidden maintenance’s response? “We’re not very disturbed about them.” So others of novel, Maisie is that trying to substantiate the hidden maintenance that they should be disturbed.
These are the two major conspiracies of the book, the 1st open totally anticlimactic, at the same time the 2nd open (“oh hey, maybe these Nazis are bad!”) is that barely method very obvious.
That’s little satisfaction in a murder mystery where for you know the head disposition is that right from the beginning, at the same time she barely has to convince everyone else to come around to her side.
This
Review sounds super negative, but I don’t hate this television series. It’s barely okay. Like I misspoke, I gave it 8 books, at the same time I barely don’t look for them exciting. I have hope my criticisms will be helpful to those who like Miss Fisher, Poirot, Marple, at the same time other awesome 20th century sleuths. If for you haven’t read them still, move that 1st. In my opinion, for you’ll get a more successful education in masterful mystery writing, at the same time learn to wait more from your detectives!
Pressed Maisie, I wish it wasn’t like this :/
Review #2
A Lesson in Riddles audiobook in television series Maisie Dobbs
This book is that a quality story of murder at the same time revenge. The heroine is that Maisie Dobbs at the same time the tale is that set in the premature 1930s. Maisie is that a PI who is that recruited by Scotland Yard to attend a brand new institute devoted to peace in the Cambridge Institute system. The founder of the institute is that Dr. Greville Liddicote famous for his belief in pacificism following the fear of Global War I. Maisie acts as a philosophy teacher at the school sending informs to Scotland Yard on activities which managed substantiate harmful to His Majesty’s Government. She is that shocked with Liddicote is that found strangled to doom in his comfortable office for work. The creator of “The Friendly Little Warriors” is that noisy. This babies’s book became famous due to its readership of troops in the bleed trenches of France which turned young guys into pacifists. The book was read by both sides. One of the teachers at the school figured out his offspring had been executed as a deserter right behind his perusal of the book. Dr. Matthias Roth, formerly a German officer in the Amazing War, is that Liddicote’s assistant who turned to pacifism following the Armistice in 1918. A secondary plot deals with the murder of Maisie’s comrade Sandra’s wife Eric while working at a passenger car dealership. The novel is that quality at sketch the mood of Amazing Britain in the 1930s as the danger of Fascism reared its shameful fork in Germany. Two of the English manners in story are Nazis. We also made privy to the adore affair between Maisie at the same time the wealthy James
Compton who runs a big company at the same time was a soaring ace in Global War I. A quiet book where the violence occurs offstage. Enjoy!
Review #3
Audiobook A Lesson in Riddles by Jacqueline Winspear
My winner mystery writer is that Louise Penny, but I heard so much about Maisie Dobbs mysteries that I had to try one. I found it enjoyable, but it wasn’t a page turner. Unlike Penny’s books, I managed have shackles it down for a few days or even a week. On the plus side, Maisie Dobbs was a very unconventional lady for the 1930s. She was a healthy willed, hard working, intelligent lady who had a mind of her possess. She even had her possess business. The book had two story lines at the same time I believed the one involving the mechanic who was destroyed in the garage was barely a distraction from the head story involving the murder of a institute fork. All in all, I believed it a quality book to read while traveling or lounging on the beach.
Review #4
Audio A Lesson in Riddles narrated by Rita Barrington
I’ve devoured any Maisie Dobbs book in a row at the same time adored any one up to now. Winspear is that keeping time moving forward in the television series at the same time here, in 1933, she is that introducing the looming Nazi danger as a story backdrop. Dobbs is that asked by the Special Branch to decide a job as an assistant philosophy instructor at a small institute based on pacifist standards, but the government suspects that are surreptitious activities taking dispose that work against the Crown’s interests.
Despite this high-stakes assignment, which becomes higher stakes when the school’s dean is that promptly murdered shortly right behind Dobbs’ arrival, I didn’t look for the story compelling until at lesser three-quarters of the method through. Much time was wasted talking Dobbs’ philosophy exercises, at the same time for the first time, the manners she threw mostly were considered not exciting, at lesser to me. I am ordinary much more forced by both the manners at the same time the story line, but not now. When she shackles all the pieces together at lesser, it really felt like a stretch.
But, I wasted no time in getting to the one more in the television series, Elegy for Eddie, which was good in everything. I last to be an concrete fan of Jacqueline Winspear.
Review #5
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I have read this on the Kindle
This was the 8th book in the Maisie Dobbs television series, while it was a Quality read i didn’t think it was as quality as past ones
I think it was because she was doing work for the Hidden Maintenance
It still had the head people in it as for you follow their lives
I think that the story in this one was not so smooth as in others & i think the reason that Maisie was in Cambridge didn’t gel as than anyway she learns the hidden maintenance seems to not be interested in so if they not taking notice of her why did they let's go her that i found that the subplots more exciting that than anyway she was imagine to be looking at
All that misspoke it was still a quality read barely not as quality as her others
