Confession Time: I have had this book for a million years.
My dad and stepmom gave it to me.
A million years ago.
And when I finally did just read it… I did the audio version.
It’s so British and lovely and charming and delightful.
At 13, Maisie is motherless (but not fatherless) and catches the eye of these wealthy types who take her in as a servant. They find her sneaking books from their library and realize she’s a Smarty Smartenheimer. Well, that changes everything. They sponsor her and she gets an education, becomes a war nurse and after the war opens her own detective agency only to take her first case – a man terrified his wife is cheating on him.
Maisie is ready to turn it down when her mentor says, “Not so fast.”
So you know it’s going to be more than a cuckolded gent.
This is the first in series I am sure to return to.