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Mrs. Odboddy: Undercover Courier: A WWII tale of mystery, mischief, and mishaps. (Mrs. Odboddy Mysteries Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Elaine Faber (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

3.9 66 ratings

Book 2 of 4: Mrs. Odboddy Mysteries

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Asked to accompany Mrs. Roosevelt on her Pacific Island tour, Agnes and Katherine travel by train to Washington, D.C. Agnes carries a package for Colonel Farthingworth to President Roosevelt.

Convinced the package contains secret war documents, Agnes expects Nazi spies to try and derail her mission.

She meets Irving, whose wife mysteriously disappears from the train; Nanny, the unfeeling caregiver to little Madeline; two soldiers bound for training as Tuskegee airmen; and Charles, the shell-shocked veteran, who lends an unexpected helping hand. Who will Agnes trust? Who is the Nazi spy?

When enemy forces make a final attempt to steal the package in Washington, D.C., Agnes must accept her own vulnerability as a warrior on the home front.

Can Agnes overcome multiple obstacles, deliver the package to the President, and still meet Mrs. Roosevelt’s plane before she leaves for the Pacific Islands?

Mrs. Odboddy: Undercover Courier is a hysterical frolic on a train across the United States during WWII, as Agnes embarks on this critical mission.

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About the Author

Elaine Faber lives in Northern California with her husband and multiple feline companions. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, California Cat Writers, and Inspire Christian Writers where she serves as the club librarian and an editor for their annual anthology. She volunteers with the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop and with the Elk Grove Friends of the Library. She enjoys speaking in retirement homes and on author panels, sharing highlights of her novels. Her short stories have appeared in national magazines and multiple anthologies.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06WCZMFGN
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Elk Grove Publications (February 8, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 8, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1286 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 195 pages

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Elaine Faber's short stories are published in magazines and multiple anthologies. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime, IElk Grove Wrters Guild, and Northern California Publishers and Authors.

Black Cat's Legacy, Elaine's debut fantasy cat-mystery novel., is the first in a series of four Cat Mysteries involving Thumper, who solves mysteries with the aid of his ancestors' memories. Black Cat narrates part of each story with his witty opinions of the inferior humans he lives with.

Four Mrs. Odboddy mysteries are set in No. CA during WWII, a humorous historical fiction both informative and funny. Mrs. Odboddy - Hometown Patriot is the first in Elaine's WWII humorous mystery series. Mrs. Odboddy fights the war from the home front, seeing conspiracies and spies around every corner. When Mrs. Roosevelt comes to town to attend a funeral, Agnes's fears become a reality and she must prove she is, indeed a hometown patriot.

The Spirit Woman of Lockleer Mountain series highlights a legendary Native American spirit woman who aids a troubled town.

All Things Cat is a delightful collection of 21 short stories about cats! A story's not a story if there's not a cat in it! All books are reader friendly without explicit sex, extreme violence or profanity.

Elaine's short stories are published in 21 anthologies over the past 7-8 years.

Elaine lives in Elk Grove, CA, with her husband. They currently share their home with two house cats,

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Cheryl Anne Stapp

A Madcap Crime Solver

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019

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Agnes Augusta Odboddy, 71 years young during WWII, is one of those zany characters that delight a reader’s heart. A lady who harbors eccentric notions magnified by an over-active imagination, she is a dedicated patriot-warrior-on-the-home-front, a teller of small and whopping fabrications; and a self-appointed scourge of the underworld who refuses to publicly admit she freshens her hair with a henna rinse.

The action starts when her friend Colonel Farthingworth, who knows that Mrs. Odboddy has been invited to accompany Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on a Pacific Islands tour, asks her to personally deliver a package to the President. Agnes is thrilled…a secret mission for the government! A chance to really do something for the war effort besides knit argyle socks!

Mrs. Odboddy and her adult granddaughter Katherine—the straight-guy foil to Agnes’s madcap inclinations—board a train for Washington, D.C. True to form, Agnes sees Nazi spies and conspiracies everywhere. She suspects a child’s nanny of sinister motives. She believes a honeymooner has murdered his bride on the train and is now coming to kill her because he knows she has cleverly figured this out. Above all, Agnes is certain that someone is trying to steal her precious package (which she just knows contains top secret documents) before she can hand it to President Roosevelt. The plot thickens as Agnes’s reactions to these beliefs lands her in one lunatic situation after another.

Over all, this book is a charming, humorous, light read to relax with.

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Emzee

Just O.K.

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2018

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I was disappointed in this book. I read all the reviews and because I enjoy reading cozy, light hearted mysteries set in this time period expected to like it. The story is better than the way it was written. After a while, I started skimming the story just to finish the book

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Speedy Grandma

A clean, humorous novel that will make you smile and even laugh

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2018

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After I read something serious, I often look to a lighter diversion, frequently in the form of a cozy mystery. This time it was Elaine Faber's MRS. ODBODDY: UNDERCOVER COURIER. Seventy-one-year-old Agnes Odboddy might more aptly be named Mrs. Busyboddy, but she is a fairly savvy undercover agent. The setting is during WWII in the United States, and since Agnes served her country in WWI, so she's more than willing to do so again. It is a clean, humorous novel that will make you smile and even laugh many times. Lighter diversion accomplished for me!

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Marilyn Meredith

Delightful Tale with an Older Woman as the Heroine

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017

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(Previous book was Mrs. Odboddy, Hometown Patriot.)
The story is set during World War II. Agnes Odboddy, the heroine, is an elderly widow with an overactive imagination. An invitation to accompany the president’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt on a goodwill trip is forefront in her mind until Colonel Farthing worth of the nearby Army base brings her to his office in a most unorthodox manner. He sends Mrs. Odboddy on a mission to deliver a package to President Roosevelt, not an easy task.

Before she even begins the trip, the enemy tries to discover and steal the package. Accompanied by her niece, Katherine, the two women begin their trip by railroad—a trip filled with danger. Mrs. Odboddy realizes she is being shadowed by a man—a man whom she suspects of being a spy and a murderer.

She and Katherine encounter others on their trip who may or may not be a threat to both of them. Mrs. Odboddy takes a harrowing detour, and when she and Katherine finally reach Washington D.C. they find they are still in danger.

This is a delightful and at times funny tale, filled with the problems civilians faced during the war years, plus the unusual and dangerous venture faced by Mrs. Odboddy. Despite her age, she manages to thwart her enemies even when under physical attack.

If you enjoy an occasional laugh while reading a thrilling tale, you’ll love Mrs. Odboddy, Undercover Courier.

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2022

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This book should be read by EVERY woman who thinks they CANNOT accomplish things because of their age or it is too dangerous, or some other forum kind reason. I really the details of her life and the suspicious thoughts she had because of what she had done when she was younger. Good read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2018

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It's a good story, an exciting mystery and a really interesting WW2 home front setting involving a cross country train trip. It could have done with a lot more editing and technical corrections for several errors, which were distracting, but now that I've finished it, I'm glad I read it and will consider buying the next in the series.

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jani8

What a hoot!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2017

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What can I say? Mrs. Odboddy is a hoot! She’s the most refreshing character since Mrs. Pollifax! She is given a mission to take a package to President Roosevelt and put it directly into his hands. She and her granddaughter Katherine are on their way to meet Mrs. Roosevelt and go on a Red Cross tour with her. They board a train to Washington DC and the merriment begins! I can’t wait for the next one to come out!

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Lilly Hi Way

Simplistic and Unbelievable

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2020

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I found this to be uninteresting and unbelievable too. I stopped reading long before I got half way through.