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Where To Die but Once sits
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- Book 14 of Maisie Dobbs. See all Maisie Dobbs books in order
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- In This Grave Hour
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- The American Agent
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- Last checked: September 24, 2026, against jacquelinewinspear.com
What To Die but Once is about
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- In the spring of 1940, Maisie Dobbs is looking into a young apprentice who has vanished while working on a secret government job. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Spring, 1940 ... investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice ... hush-hush government contract
- The trail leads from rural Hampshire into the wartime schemes of one of the most powerful men in London's underworld. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
rural Hampshire ... wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men
Topics in this book
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Topics
- Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
- Missing persons
- Organized crime
- Women detectives
- Women private investigators
- World War, 1939-1945
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Book type
- Fiction
Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Maisie Dobbs
18 books listed so far
- Book 1: Maisie Dobbs
- Book 2: Birds of a Feather
- Book 3: Pardonable Lies
- Book 4: Messenger of Truth
- Book 5: An Incomplete Revenge
- Book 6: Among the Mad
- Book 7: The Mapping of Love and Death
- Book 8: A Lesson in Secrets
- Book 9: Elegy for Eddie
- Book 10: Leaving Everything Most Loved
- Book 11: A Dangerous Place
- Book 12: Journey to Munich
- Book 13: In This Grave Hour
- Book 15: The American Agent
- Book 16: The Consequences of Fear
- Book 17: A Sunlit Weapon
- Book 18: The Comfort of Ghosts
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