01747cam a2200325 i 4500 1344017218 TxAuBib 20240627120000.0 231211s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023056228 9781641296069 1641296062 (OCoLC)1404819390 TxAuBib rda Winspear, Jacqueline, author. The comfort of ghosts / Jacqueline Winspear. New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2024] x, 342 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion -- the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband."-- Book jacket. 20240627. Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) Fiction. Orphans Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction. Historical fiction. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.