The Librarian's Guide to Espionage, (Paperback)

<p><b><i>The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel</i> meets <i>The Alice Network.</i> Inspired by the true story of Florence Mendheim, a real New York librarian who spent years attending Nazi rallies undercover.</b></p><p>Betty Mannheim has three problems: she's thirty-one, unmarried, and her mother won't let her forget either. She also has a fourth problem, which her mother doesn't know about. Betty is spying on Nazis.<b> </b></p><p><b>New York City, 1936</b>. When a mysterious stranger walks into Betty's library branch in Washington Heights and asks her to attend a Friends of New Germany rally as undercover agent <i>Gertrude Mueller</i>, Betty does something she's never done before: she says yes. Not because she isn't afraid. Because she's more afraid of spending the rest of her life eating spaetzle on the covered couch.</p><p>So begins Betty's double life--sitting in rooms full of people who want her dead while her matchmaker lines up surgeons, her mother works herself into a compress-on-the-head frenzy, and Betty discovers she's rather good at lying, self-defence, and falling for the wrong man.</p><p>Inspired by the true story of the Jewish spy networks that monitored Nazi activity on American soil in the 1930s, a novel about a woman who was told to stay in the lines--and chose, very quietly, to blow them up.<br></p>

• The Librarian's Guide to Espionage, (Paperback)
• Author: Lea Geller
• ISBN: 9781837008728
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-03-23
• Page Count: 368