The Maid

 The Maid by Nita Prose is listed as a novel, but it is also very much a mystery novel.

Prose is writing this novel from the perspective of Molly Gray, best known as Molly Maid.

She works very hard cleaning rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel.  Moly Maid is twenty five years old, but she is also an unusual young lady, who struggles with understanding the cues and social interactions that other people take for granted.  She sees the world in black and white and sometimes  misses thee nuanced  shades of grey.  Having grown up with her Gran, she is trying now to move on after Gran's death.  She is trying to negotiate the daily life of going to work, cleaning her apartment, making the rent and understanding those around  her.  

She is happiest when she is wearing her crisp clean uniform, pushing her cleaning cart full of clean sheets, towels, miniature soaps, shampoos and little individually wrapped chocolates to leave on pillows. She takes her job  seriously and she takes the directions of the manager at face value and literally.

When she tries to befriend the Rodney, bartender at the Regency and tries to help Juan Manuel, the  dishwasher in the kitchen, her cleaning skills are put to the test and her honesty is questioned.