Mrs. Odboddy's Desperate Doings by Elaine Faber
Mrs. Odboddy's Desperate Doings takes place in No. CA during WWII as Agnes Odboddy continues to fight the war from the home front.
She is discouraged about her inability to find a
permanent home for a displaced carnival tiger she rescued from her last
adventure, Mrs. Odboddy And Then There
was a Tiger.
When she falls from a tree and suffers a head injury, her usual
eccentric notions increase. But when she accuses the local doctor of being an
art thief, folks wonder if her head injury is responsible for her increasingly irrational
behavior or is it dementia? For a raucous
adventure with an absurdly funny elderly sleuth, you can’t miss with Mrs. Odboddy’s Desperate Doings.
Interview with
Agnes’s best friend, Mildred Higgenbottom
Agnes and I have been friends for years. How did we
meet…? Good question. Let me think...
It was 1918, during WWI. Agnes and I were United
States’ undercover agents, assigned a top secret operation in Paris. We spent
three days hiding in a bombed-out building with our handler, Godfrey Baumgarten.
Believe me, after 72 hours in a life or death situation, you end up either
hating someone’s guts or friends for life. Godfrey and Agnes got quite close…too
close, if you ask me…We didn’t see him again for 25 years, but he showed up in
Newbury last year and became an important person in Agnes’s life.
Agnes changed after Paris. She became paranoid, eccentric,
and fanatically patriotic, determined to root out injustice, regardless of the
consequences. She’s become convinced the country is over run with Nazi spies
and wartime conspiracies. Her first three mystery novel adventures are focused
on her attempts to expose miscreants and conspirators. All three novels are a
hoot at a hootenanny!
At the moment, we’re more concerned about her obsession
to find a home for the tiger, fighting off the city councils’ threats against
the beast, and her wild accusations about old Dr. Schatzsman, the local doctor.
She claims she saw him stealing pictures from a local neighbor. She drives Police
Chief Waddlemucker crazy with her antics. She’s usually wrong about her
conspiracy theories, but, this time, about the doctor? I’m not so sure.
Agnes lives with her granddaughter, Katherine, and her
foster child, Maddie. Maddie’s connection to Shere Khan, the tiger, is almost
spiritual, and when the Newbury City Council threatens the tiger’s life, Agnes plans
to take action. How far would she go to protect his striped hide? I’m not sure,
but fair warning, Councilman Pustlebuster. I suggest you peddle your papers elsewhere,
because if Agnes decides to prevent your nefarious intentions regarding that
tiger, your name is toast!
Available at Amazon: E-book. Mrs. Odboddy’s Desperate Doings is just $3.99. https://tinyurl.com/5xah4cnt For an autographed and discounted paperback,
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Elaine’s Bio
Elaine Faber is a member of Sisters in Crime, Northern
CA Publishers and Authors, and Cat Writers Association. She lives in No. CA
with husband and Truffie, the inspiration for her short story anthology, All Things Cat. Elaine volunteers at the American Cancer
Society Discovery Shop. She has published nine mystery novels and her stories
have appeared in multiple anthologies.
Elaine’s
other Novels:
http://tinyurl.com/lrvevgm Black
Cat’s Legacy
http://tinyurl.com/lg7yvgq Black Cat and the Lethal Lawyer
http://tinyurl.com/07zcsm2 Black
Cat and the Accidental Angel
https://tinyurl.com/vgyp89s Black
Cat and the Secret in Dewey’s Diary
http://tinyurl.com/y9p9htak All Things Cat
http://tinyurl.com/hdbvzsv Mrs. Odboddy–Hometown Patriot
http://tinyurl.com/jn5bzwb
Mrs. Odboddy Undercover Courier
http://tinyurl.com/yx72fcpx
Mrs. Odboddy And Then There was a Tiger
https://tinyurl.com/5xah4cnt Mrs. Odboddy’s Desperate Doings
http://tinyurl.com/y7rp7f3x The Spirit Woman of Lockleer Mountain
Elaine.Faber@mindcandymysteries.com
(e-mail)
http://www.mindcandymysteries.com (Website)
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