Pre-numbered label used for registration.

discarded by library
hardback
185pp
published, 1989

Inside dust jacket:
Agent Appleton Porter is back in Marc Lovell's twelfth novel to feature this 6'7" spy, who just happens to be the most likable, unlikely crime fighter since Inspector Clouseau. Part James Bond, part Keystone Kop, Apple blushes as easily as a young girl, speaks twenty-seven languages with fifteen accents, and is hampered by a sense of fair play and a genius for making people dislike him instantly.

Thanks to his god-awful grades in Secret Service school, Apple's assignments tend toward the tamer side. However, he always manages to turn the most innocent caper into a hilariously self-important espionage mission. In ETHEL AND THE NAKED SPY, Apple's job is to enter the British Old Vehicles Association's annual rally from Paris to Vienna, discover which of the members plans to defect to Russia, and persuade the would-be wall-jumper otherwise. With the help of Ethel, Apple's classic retired London taxi, he infiltrates this peculiar group of eccentrics. Among the potential defectors are a somewhat obscure opera singer, a chain-smoking poetess of minor repute, the attractive publisher of an unimportant literary magazine, a retired archaeologist, a small-time inventor, and an ex-runner who now teaches gym...

RELEASE NOTES:

on board, in parking lot, inside ziploc bag

I found this book in the parking lot of my boyfriend's apartment in a ziploc bag along with another book. I haven't decided on where I'm going to put the book yet, we will have to wait and see. It will be interesting to see where it travels to though.