Sarah R. Shaber
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1942, Washington DC. Young widow Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Despite the privations of wartime life, she is enjoying being an independent, working woman and is determined never to go back to Wilmington, North Carolina, to live with her parents. But a casual friendship threatens to change everything. Louise knows little about Alessa di Luca, other than that she is a war refugee--and she...
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Louise, chief file clerk at the OSS, heads off to talk to the recipient of a puzzling postcard referred to OSS by the US Censor, and her investigation becomes complicated as she realizes the recipient is involved in something illegal.
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"1943, Washington D.C.. On a bitterly cold December night, Government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn when a bloodstained body is discovered behing the bar. Although the vicitm had been a regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it turns out there is a link to Louise's top-secret work at the OSS, she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder...
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 5
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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 come 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...
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Government Girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic services - the US's wartime intelligence agency - only to learn he'd drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. OSS insists it was an accident, but a DC homicide detective named Royal believes the analyst was murdered and blackmails Louise into helping him investigate.
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie ; 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing... February, 1944. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. --
7) Louise's War
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first book in the Louise Pearlie Mysteries is "Sarah Shaber's best novel yet" (Margaret Maron).
It's 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she...
It's 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she...
8) Simon said
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An archeological dig near a college in Raleigh, North Carolina, uncovers the body of a woman shot in the back of the head. She has been dead for half a century. Simon Shaw, a history teacher at the college who is looking for distraction from his recent divorce, tries his hand at sleuthing. A first novel.
12) The bug funeral
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"University of North Carolina History Professor Simon Shaw has been making headlines for his role in investigating murders that occurred over the last century. Now another mystery has presented itself. A forest ranger has discovered the remains of a young woman below the Blue Ridge Parkway in Boone, North Carolina. It's the corpse of Eva Potter, who had disappeared in 1958. A man she was dating, Roy Freedman, confessed to her murder. Now Freedman,...
13) Shell game
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English