A Lesson in Secrets (29 page)

Acknowledgments

I
would like to thank Dr. Tammy M. Proctor, Professor of History at Wittenberg University and author of the excellent book
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War
, for so kindly providing me with additional information on the crucial role played by the great number of women who served in the intelligence services across Europe during the First World War, 1914–18.

My thanks to Amy Rennert, the best literary agent in the world and my dear friend.

I am equally blessed to work with the enormously talented Jennifer Barth of HarperCollins, who in my estimation is the best editor in the world. My deepest gratitude to you, Jennifer.

About the Author

J
ACQUELINE
W
INSPEAR
is the author of the
New York Times
bestsellers
An Incomplete Revenge
,
Among the Mad
, and
The Mapping of Love and Death
, as well as five other national bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity Awards for the first book in the series,
Maisie Dobbs
. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.

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Also by Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs

Birds of a Feather

Pardonable Lies

Messenger of Truth

An Incomplete Revenge

Among the Mad

The Mapping of Love and Death

Credits

Jacket illustration by Andrew Davidson

Jacket design by Archie Ferguson

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A LESSON IN SECRETS.
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EPub Edition April 2011 ISBN: 9780062079237

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