A peculiar combination : a novel / Ashley Weaver.
Material type: TextSeries: Weaver, Ashley. Electra McDonnell novel ; Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 296 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1250780489 (hc.)
- 9781250780485 (hc.)
- A peculiar combination : an Electra McDonnell novel
- FIC
- PS3623.E3828 P43 2021
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Weave (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 28514 |
Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when he receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family, he and Ellie can't resist. All goes as planned-- until the pair are caught redhanded. Ellie expects them to be taken straight to prison, but instead they are delivered to a large townhouse, where government official Major Ramsey is waiting with an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort, or he turns her over to the police. When she and the Major break into the house in question, they find instead the purported German spy dead on the floor, the safe already open and empty.
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