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A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow!. The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear's ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series.. "An outstanding historical series." - The New York Times. "Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims." - The Historical Novel Society. Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future.. 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. Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group.