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Informationen zum Autor Margit Liesche is the daughter of Hungarian refugees who arrived in the U.S. in 1947 following eight years of missionary service in war-torn central China. She lives and writes in Marin County, California. Klappentext Pucci Lewis needs to go to jail to unmask the imprisoned countess-counteragent Grace Buchanan-Dineen. After all! how else can she gain access to the countess! whoabecause of her complicity with the FBIahad been jailed for her own protection? When Pucci lands her B-24 bomber at the Willow Run aircraft factory! she doesnat expect to stumble across a corpse! especially a corpse belonging to a German spy with links to Buchanan-Dineen. Can Pucci infiltrate both a prison and Detroitas high society to expose this dangerous spy ring before it causes grave damage? Zusammenfassung "A sharply written adventure/mystery debut." —Kirkus Reviews Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess/counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and possibly putting the country's future at risk? Buchanan-Dineen was a real-life figure who led a German spy ring operating in Detroit during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed to act as a counteragent helping to nail the other ring members. Jailed along with her cohorts—"for her own protection"—her rancor ran deep. Enter Pucci, landing in a B-24 bomber at the Willow Run aircraft factory. Late for a meeting, she takes a shortcut and stumbles upon a corpse. Agent Dante appears, revealing the dead man to be a German spy. A fellow Willow Run employee, Otto Renner, had been under surveillance and the FBI suspects a link between Renner and the imprisoned countess. Dante convinces Pucci to become a sister inmate to see what she can learn. Then she infiltrates a posh women's club where Buchanan-Dineen once lectured as a "charm consultant." Could the club be the center of a spy ring? ...
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Margit Liesche
