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Chasing Jenny : a Philatelic Mystery by Jeff Stage is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A fire in an old, exposed-beam summer cottage leaves two people desperately searching for an escape. A slippery car chase over country roads through a blizzard. Explosions. Magic. A deadly knife. Deceit. Prowling U-boats. Thievery. Death. So, these are the elements of stamp collecting? Perceptions of the hobby are turned upside down in Jeff Stage's "Chasing Jenny: A Philatelic Mystery," a history-based novel that includes the story of our nation's first airmail flight in 1918; a tense WWII convoy across the Atlantic; and a brush with the post-war 1950s. Much of the story is contemporary, set in Syracuse, N.Y., and the cottage area of the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario. In 1955, someone boldly plucks a block of four rare postage stamps – the world-famous inverted Jennys – from beneath security guards' noses on the third morning of a national stamp show in Norfolk, Va. Fictional "Chasing Jenny" picks things up nearly 60 years later when Lizzy Smith thinks her aging father has one of the rare stamps, and she's out to find the tiny piece of paper that could be worth $1 million. Trouble is, so are others, who are willing to steal, lie and commit murder. The story's timeline begins i

Who reads Chasing Jenny : a Philatelic Mystery?

Author

Jeff Stage

Publisher

BookBaby : Made available through hoopla

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781483511078

Category

work of fiction