02165cam a2200337 4500 552991692 TxAuBib 20210604120000.0 201201s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020053225 9781250780485 $26.99 1250780489 $26.99 (OCoLC)1226073995 DLC eng rda DLC BDX HQD OCLCO LMJ OCLCF TH8 JAS IP6 OCLCO TxAuBib Weaver, Ashley. A peculiar combination : an Electra McDonnell novel / Ashley Weaver. First edition. New York, NY : Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021. 296 pages ; 25 cm. Electra McDonnell novel ; 1 Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when he receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family, he and Ellie can't resist. All goes as planned-until the pair are caught redhanded. Ellie expects them to be taken straight to prison, but instead they are delivered to a large townhouse, where government official Major Ramsey is waiting with an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort, or he turns her over to the police. When she and the Major break into the house in question, they find instead the purported German spy dead on the floor, the safe already open and empty. 20210604. Thieves Fiction. Murder Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. England Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft War fiction. lcgft Electra McDonnell novel ; 1.