Maisie, immersing herself in Gibraltar life by staying in a rooming house rather than the posh tourist-oriented hotel, finds Babayoff's second camera near the crime scene and begins her own investigation. The dead man is identified as Sebastian Babayoff, a photographer and member of the local Sephardic Jewish community. As often happens, Maisie stumbles-this time literally-upon a corpse and isn't satisfied with the seemingly cursory police investigation. With nearby Spain on the brink of civil war, tensions run high, and support-both financial and in the form of ammunition-funnels steadily across the increasingly porous border. Though she initially feels strong enough, both mentally and physically, to face London again in the spring of 1937, Maisie has a change of heart midvoyage and decamps in Gibraltar, a military garrison and an international outpost for those on both ends of the political spectrum. Still reeling from personal tragedies, intrepid nurse-turned–private investigator Maisie Dobbs becomes embroiled in a murder case in Gibraltar on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.įollowing the death of her husband, Viscount James Compton, in a Canadian aviation accident and her ensuing miscarriage, Maisie traveled to India rather than return home to England, despite pleas from family and friends.
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