Louise Pearlie Mystery: Louise's Blunder: A 1940s Spy Thriller Set in Wartime Washington (Hardcover)(Large Print)

from Gloria2015Books

Quick, page-turning read.

from NewsieQ

Louise Pearlie, a clerk in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II Washington, is asked by her superiors to do some minor investigating into the death of a colleague. She mistakenly gives the dead man's landlady her real name - and then she's tracked down outside the OSS building b...

from kaulsu

It is simply ridiculous. In one scene Louise sits down in a pair of woolen trousers and stands up in dress. In another she leaves the office wearing a straw Fedora and takes off her headscarf when she reaches her destination. These types of errors happen when revising, but are easily spotted by a...

from jetangen4571

historical-research, historical-fiction, historical-setting, spies, WW2, Washington DC, short ***** The OSS was the precursor of the CIA and it operated during WW2 (check out the biography of Julia Child!). This agency was every bit as disjointed and dysfunctional as the current one and many of t...

from jetangen4571

historical-research, historical-fiction, historical-setting, spies, WW2, Washington DC, short ***** The OSS was the precursor of the CIA and it operated during WW2 (check out the biography of Julia Child!). This agency was every bit as disjointed and dysfunctional as the current one and many of t...