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Louise's Chance

by Sarah R. Shaber
Jenny Hoops
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1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS—the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners of war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. It's a big chance for her, and Louise hopes she can finally escape her filing and typing duties.

With the job comes two new colleagues: Alice Osborne, a propaganda expert, and Merle Ellison, a forger from Texas who just happens to speak fluent German. But when the three arrive at Fort Meade to interview the first German POWs to arrive there, their mission is beset by complications. Only one of the prisoners speaks English, the army officer in charge of the camp is an alcoholic, and two prisoners disappeared on the ship bringing the Germans to the states. Were their deaths suicide? Officially, yes. But Louise can't help but have her doubts ...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Louise Pearlie Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 24, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798200809479
      • File size: 190415 KB
      • Duration: 06:36:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 16, 2015
      Set in late 1943, Shaber’s suspenseful fifth WWII mystery (after 2014’s Louise’s Blunder) takes Louise Pearlie, who’s been working as a clerk for the OSS in Washington, D.C., to Fort Meade in Maryland, where she gets a more exciting job with Psychological Warfare Operations—helping recruit German POWs for an American black-propaganda campaign behind enemy lines. On arrival, Louise meets fast-talking Alice Osborne, her new supervisor, and Merle Ellison, a German-speaking Texan and government forger. The three learn that Rolf Muntz and Hurst Aach, two detainees from the same address in the Sudetenland, went overboard in transit across the Atlantic. The men apparently committed suicide, but, as the POW interviews get underway, Louise and company suspect what happened to Muntz and Aach is not so clear-cut. As usual, Shaber provides interesting period details, such as the enmity the Italian prisoners bear for the German prisoners in the aftermath of the German occupation of Italy. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary Agency.

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