A costermonger’s murder plunges Maisie into another 1930s London case in Elegy for Eddie (Morrow $25.99)

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Jackie loves her history and she’s clearly been reading up on Henry II for the plot of this unusual entry in Maisie Dobbs’ casebooks. April, 1933, finds Maisie with a second employee at the office, a feeling all is not well in her relationship with James, and confronted with a group of costermongers (peddlers working from carts on the streets of London) who arrive dressed in their best to hire her to look into the death of Eddie Pettit. Maisie has known her clients forever as friends of her father Frank, and all appreciated Eddie, a simple soul with a gift for horse whispering. Who could possibly have wanted so inoffensive and indeed beloved a character dead? Less a mystery than a character study, the story pushes Maisie’s boundaries.