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REVIEWS BY MARTHA -
M ARTHA C HEVES R ESIDENT R EVIEWER
T HE M YSTERY OF THE L OST A VENGER
Author: Linda Maria Frank
Pages: 194 pages
Publication Date: June 15, 2016
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Language: English
ASIN: B0794TWW5Y, ISBN: 978-1480831698
Martha Cheves always manages to find books that may have been out
for a while, some by self-published authors, but always an honest re-
view. Perhaps you will find a gem you wouldn’t have found without
Martha. She says this book is more of a YA book, but still enjoyable.
A good book is a good book and the fact that time passed does not af-
fect its appeal
Charlotte Wheeler suspected that sab-
otage was happening at the Grumman
plant. She was able to figure out the
faulty hinges for the Avenger's bomb bay
doors were being randomly replaced for
the good hinges, by someone who had ac-
cess to the plant. Charlotte and her bud-
dies checked all the planes and prevented
the faulty parts from being switched.
They did their best to stop the saboteur,
things got rough and Charlotte was at-
tacked one night while she was waiting to
catch him in the act. was given to another WASP to deliver.
Her name was Brenda McPhee and she
never made it to her destination. Her
plane disappeared.
Charlotte Wheeler was a WASP during
WWII. She not only helped build the
planes, she also flew them to their desti-
nation where they were turned over to
the fighting pilots. She was scheduled to
fly one of the bombers out but noticed a
problem with the bomb bay doors. While
she went to check on something the plane As with all of the Annie Tillery Myster-
ies, this one kept my interest. It not only
had some history, it also had a great mys-
tery and of course a ghost. Looking for-
ward to reading the next in this series.
W INTER 2019
Many years later Annie, who is Char-
lotte's great grand-daughter, finds out
that the plane has been found and there
was a letter inside that was written by
Charlotte. Through further research and
the help of her boyfriend Ty, Annie de-
cides to solve the mystery of the downed
plane and who the saboteur was.
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