![]() ![]() Dobbs also tries to prove the innocence of a 13-year-old country girl (the same age Dobbs was when she went into service) who became a prostitute and is now charged with murder.Īs in her first two books about Dobbs, Winspear shows us how everything she knows and has learned in her various roles influences her work. Two unusual but possibly linked investigations into the fates of men missing in action and declared dead occupy most of Dobbs' time in "Pardonable Lies" (the title comes from a poem by Sophocles that almost certainly would have been part of the education of a young woman at Cambridge's Girton College): a man who is honoring a deathbed promise to his wife to find out what happened to their aviator son, and an old college friend wanting to know more about her brother's end. ![]()
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