Maisie Dobbs' Thrilling Adventure in "Among the Mad"

DW: The used book was in very good condition and it was shipped and received on time. I will order from this seller again.

United States on Nov 07, 2023

The Canadian: I am completely hooked on this series. Well researched and well written - good insight into this era. Each book better than the last!

Canada on Oct 20, 2023

Amazon Customer: A good read, a page turner. Well written.

Canada on Aug 21, 2023

Andrea McKinney: A very poignant look at the suffering experienced by men returning from WWI, with wounds to body and soul, to a country that wanted only to move beyond the war. Haunted by their past, they feel Invisible, alone and discarded. Maisie investigates one of these tortured, tormented men who has become a danger to many innocent people.

United States on Jun 21, 2023

Cowgirl Meemaw: Maisie gets involved in a case of life and death, and I found myself wanting to read on and on and yet also not wanting it to end. I hope the rest of this series has such a good story.

United States on Mar 20, 2023

BananaTricky: Three and a half stars.

Maisie and Billy are innocent bystanders when a WW1 veteran explodes a bomb in London. Then an anonymous letter is sent to senior cabinet members, mentioning Maisie's name, threatening terrible consequences if the government doesn't announce wide reaching plans to support ex-servicemen. When the government fails to respond by the deadline the terrorist starts escalating matters and it becomes clear that he has the knowledge and skills to create poison gases which could kill half of London.

Maisie is brought in by Special Branch to give her unorthodox assistance to catch this man before he can carry out his threat. Her analysis of the handwriting, writing style, and appearance of the paper leads her to believe that he may have been injured in the war, and perhaps have sought or received psychiatric treatment.

It's a race against time which will lead Maisie to secret government poison gas laboratories and uncovering some nasty secrets about war.

This was good, but all the descriptions of horrible deaths due to poison gas make pretty grim reading.

Also, in light of also having read the next book in this series, I get the...

United Kingdom on May 02, 2022

Sharon Howard: This is the 2nd Massie Dobbs novel I have read. This was more difficult a read than my previous book of Jacqueline Spears but I also think this is an earlier one in the series.

Whilst the characters are fictional so much of the story detail is accurate. It has prompted me to want to look at a London map of that eta, as whilst a born and bred Londoner many locations are well known to me, there are a couple of things I would like to verify. It is a fact that following the 1st world war our government enlisted scientists to work on chemical warfare and it is also true the plight of those who fought so bravely. I will be reading more in this series.

United Kingdom on Jun 25, 2020

milliemumof7: Excellent book! Winspear is back on track after two not so very good novels about Maisie Dobbs. The pace is fast in this one almost from page number one which is the way I want a mystery. I could hardly read fast enough and finished in two days since it was a page turner like nothing else.
Billy Beale and Maise Dobbs walks out of their office on Christmas Eve to deliver a bill to a client and a man commits suicide right in front of their eyes. After being questioned by the Scotland Yard about what they saw they go to celebrate Christmas. But Maisie is brought back to London already on Boxing Day to be part of a desperate investigation to find a man that wants to make the government change their policy on how to treat war veterans with disabilities. She is forced to work with Special Branch, Scotland Yard and MI5 who in between themselves have a difficult time getting along. Their chase after a mad man that kills first 6 dogs with chlorine gas, 50 birds with another combination of gases and finally a junior minister with a new gas, is like searching for a needle in a haystack. People Maisie has had a high regard for since the war turns out to not be so nice after all. And she...

United Kingdom on Mar 24, 2010

Laurie Fletcher: I've been a faithful reader of Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series since the first book. World War I has held a repellent fascination for me since I was young and this series deals ably with the war and its aftermath through the experiences of former battlefield nurse, now psychologist and private investigator, Maisie Dobbs. A few of the previous Dobbs books have seemed uneven to me, with too much emphasis on the mystical and too much time spent on atmosphere, but this one hits the right combination of effective story elements on every page.

In this book, there is a home-grown terrorist at work (yes, that's right - in 1930s London). Before we forgot our Vietnam war veterans, Britain (and probably the rest of Europe) forgot its devastated WWI soldiers. And make no mistake; there never was a war before or since that sent men home with greater physical and psychological damage. Between the trenches and the poison gas, the survivors had a horrible burden to bear without the embarrassed disdain of a populace that just wanted to get the war far behind them. But an angry and insane survivor is determined to see that the forgotten get the pensions and thanks he feels have been withheld...

United States on Feb 24, 2010

S. McGee: In the world that Maisie Dobbs ("Psychologist and Investigator") inhabits, peace is an elusive phenomenon, even 13 years after the Armistice put an end to the trench warfare that she witnessed as a nurse. In the aftermath of the Great War, Maisie now finds herself battling with the legacy of that conflict. In Winspear's five previous novels, she has dealt with the aftermath of mysterious wartime Zeppelin attacks, evil doings at a hospital for disfigured soldiers and myriad other crimes tied to the aftermath of the war.

In this, Winspear's sixth novel in the series, Maisie is unwittingly dragged into a case that involves terrorist threats. After witnessing a man she believes to be a troubled veteran blow himself up with a hand grenade, her name is mentioned in a threatening letter that another soldier sends to Scotland Yard and top government ministers. Along with her former admirer, Inspector Stratton, Maisie must work with Special Branch police to fend off a chemical weapons threat from a disturbed individual demanding that the government treat veterans -- disabled or otherwise -- fairly and honorably. It's a difficult case for Maisie, not only because she must grapple...

United States on Feb 20, 2009