Dimensions
140 x 223 x 30mm
London, 1929. Joseph Waite, one of Britain's wealthiest men, knows what he wants. So when his eighteen-year-old daughter, Charlotte, runs away from home, he is determined to keep the case away from the police and the newspapers. Instead he turns to a woman renowned for her discretion and investigative powers - the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs.
Immediately sensing the tensions pervading the Waite household, Maisie soon discovers that there are many reasons
why Charlotte might have left home. Instinctively Maisie feels that Charlotte is safe. Yet suddenly she finds herself confronting a murder scene . . .