This is the second of the Maggie Dobbs novels and I like it much more than the first. In this novel, Maggie is asked to find the daughter of a supermarket magnate. As she learns as much as she can about the daughter, Charlotte Waite, three of Charlotte's friends turn up dead, whether from murder, poisoning or suicide. At first, Maggie continues the search for Charlotte but soon begins to see a connection between the deaths of the three friends and Charlotte. It's set in 1930 and her chief investigator, Billy Beale, a WWI vet, ably helps her in the pursuit despite his addiction to painkillers. Maggie, of course, realizes this is a problem and works out a plan for him to overcome this problem as she continues her quest for answers to the missing Charlotte Waite.
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