The Yankee Doctor (Richard the paperboy Book 3) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

It’s 1945 in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and 12-year-old Richard Mason and his best friend, John Clayton Reed, have a big problem. Not the distant War overseas, getting caught in Old Man Odom’s watermelon patch, or missing any of Walter Winchell’s rapid-fire radio broadcasts. This problem is that there is a new Yankee Doctor in town who is welcoming shady “clients” to his office downtown—a secret known only to Richard and John Clayton. “Heck, in my whole, entire life I ain’t never had nothing upset me as much,” Richard tells readers, as the two boys struggle to alert skeptical parents and a sotted constable to the doctor’s nocturnal side business, which involves drug sales and visits from the flashy “Randolph Hotel girls.” “Shoot, me and John Clayton was durn nearly kilt, and that weren’t all,” Richard says. “We came so close to being sent off to reform school you wouldn’t believe it in a million years.” Richard and John Clayton do get arrested but are not packed off to reform school, or “kid’s jail” as they call it. Instead, they attempt to drive the doctor out of town with weapons from the arsenal of 12-year-old country boys: a sack full of angry hornets, hundreds of roaches from the city garbage dump, and a few well-placed brown water snakes. In the end, Richard and John Clayton expose the “sorry” antics of Dr. Carl and his floozy nurse, Miss Tina, in this Huckleberry tale of friendship, family honor, and small town life in World War II-era America. The Yankee Doctor is Volume 3 in the Richard the Paperboy Series. The other books include: The Red Scarf (Vol 1), Lyin' Like a Dog (Vol 2), The Danged Swamp! (Vol 4), "I will drink your blood" The Vampire-Werewolf of Flat Creek Swamp. (Vol 5), The Mystery of the Canebrake (Vol 6), The River Rat and a Catahoula Hog Dog (Vol 7), How Me and John Clayton Saved the World (Vol 8).