Olive Bright, Pigeoneer /
Graves, Stephanie,
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer / Stephanie Graves. - First Kensington hardcover edition. - 358 pages ; 22 cm
Tending her veterinarian father's Hertfordshire racing pigeons while waiting for her best friend to return from World War II, Olive is recruited into the Baker Street covert branch of British Intelligence before investigating the murder of a local busybody. As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not from the NPS. Instead, Jameson Aldridge and his associate are tied to a covert British intelligence organization known as Baker Street. If Olive wants her pigeons to help the war effort, she must do so in complete secrecy. When local busybody Miss Husselbee is found dead outside Olive's pigeon loft. Is the murder tied to Olive's new assignment? -- adapted from jacket
9781496731517 1496731514
2020944009
World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
Homing pigeons--War use--Fiction.
Racing pigeons--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Great Britain--Fiction.
Villages--England--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer / Stephanie Graves. - First Kensington hardcover edition. - 358 pages ; 22 cm
Tending her veterinarian father's Hertfordshire racing pigeons while waiting for her best friend to return from World War II, Olive is recruited into the Baker Street covert branch of British Intelligence before investigating the murder of a local busybody. As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not from the NPS. Instead, Jameson Aldridge and his associate are tied to a covert British intelligence organization known as Baker Street. If Olive wants her pigeons to help the war effort, she must do so in complete secrecy. When local busybody Miss Husselbee is found dead outside Olive's pigeon loft. Is the murder tied to Olive's new assignment? -- adapted from jacket
9781496731517 1496731514
2020944009
World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
Homing pigeons--War use--Fiction.
Racing pigeons--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Great Britain--Fiction.
Villages--England--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.