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If You Cant Trust Your Uncle Sam [LARGE PRINT] | ![If You Cant Trust Your Uncle Sam [LARGE PRINT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DD65GE7XL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Author: Barbara J. Olexer
Publisher: Joyous Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1209714
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 209
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0972274022
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780972274029
ASIN: 0972274022
Publication Date: August 15, 2003
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When murder erupts in a Washington, D.C. suburb, Wrin Veersil is hired to solve the questions of who did it and why. With her assistant, former Marine Claude Newhouse, Wrin sets to work and ties the case back to a nasty situation in southern Oregon created by the machinations of the federal government. Suspects include angry farmers and assorted bureaucrats. Wrin Veersil is 26 1/2 inches tall, which is sometimes inconvenient, but her diminutive height is unrelated to her stature as a working investigator. Wrin is smart, tough, and tenacious.
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Wonderful character-driven mystery September 11, 2007
I'm not usually a mystery reader, but I enjoyed this humorous, character-driven novel so thoroughly that I had to recommend it. I would happily follow Wrin anywhere, including on a murder trail, just to enjoy her plucky humor. I can't wait to read more by this author.
--Pamela Ehrenberg (author, _Ethan, Suspended_)
A tenacious page-turner July 25, 2003
If You Can't Trust Your Uncle Sam is the large print edition of a dark murder mystery by Barbara J. Olexer which centers around the diminutive protagonist - Wrin Veersil. She may be only 26 inches tall, but Wrin's determination more than makes up for her stature when she is hired to learn who committed a slaying in a Washington D.C. suburb. The "why", and "what" conspiracy the government she encounters involves a web of death and deception. If You Can't Trust Your Uncle Sam is a tenacious page-turner and a highly recommended addition to community library Large Print collections for older readers.
Wonderfully Wryly Wrin... July 22, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Remember Billy Barty and how he used to kick the members of Spike Jones' band in the shin when they irritated him? As a working private investigator who is 26 inches tall, Wrin Veersil abhors being called "cute," so don't do it, however cute you think she is. She probably won't kick you in the shin but you'd still be advised not to irritate her. Her assistant is a former Marine, Claude Newhouse. Claude is six-foot-five and not a man to trifled with. If You Can't Trust Your Uncle Sam is set in Washington, D.C. and the Tulelake Basin at the foot of Mt. Shasta in northern California and southern Oregon. The cover photo of Mt. Shasta is
worth the price of the book. It is truly gorgeous. The storyline involves the murder/suicide of an FBI agent and his family that Wrin is hired to investigate. The trail leads west and Wrin finds herself in the middle of a huge mess that the government made when it shut off the water that the
local farmers need to irrigate their crops. The whole region is slowly dying, which muddies the waters, so to speak, in Wrin's investigations. Although the situation is tragic, the author manages to find quite a bit of fun as Wrin and Claude close in on a cold-blooded killer.
Wonderfully Wryly Wrin... July 16, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Remember Billy Barty and how he used to kick the members of Spike Jones' band in the shin when they irritated him? As a working private investigator who is 26 inches tall, Wrin Veersil abhors being called "cute," so don't do it, however cute you think she is. She probably won't kick you in the shin but you'd still be advised not to irritate her. Her assistant is a former Marine, Claude Newhouse. Claude is six-foot-five and not a man to be trifled with. "If You Can't Trust Your Uncle Sam" is set in Washington, D.C. and the Tulelake Basin at the foot of Mt. Shasta in northern California and southern Oregon. The cover photo of Mt. Shasta is worth the price of the book. It is truly gorgeous! The storyline involves the murder/suicide of an FBI agent and his family that Wrin is hired to investigate. The trail leads west and Wrin finds herself in the middle of a huge mess that the government made when it shut off the water that the
local farmers need to irrigate their crops. The whole region is slowly dying, which muddies the waters, so to speak, in Wrin's investigations. Although the situation is tragic, the author manages to find quite a bit of fun as Wrin and Claude close in on a cold-blooded killer.
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