Poster Girl

A Jane Benjamin Novel

Shelley Blanton-Stroud

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781647425944
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR’s Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America’s winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn’t want those women at work.

During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover’s secret post–Pearl Harbor mission—and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed.

Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders—before the murderer harms another girl and America’s best chance of winning the war.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter One: Day Seven
• Chapter Two: Day One
• Chapter Three: Day One
• Chapter Four: Day One
• Chapter Five: Day One
• Chapter Six: Day One
• Chapter Seven: Day One
• Chapter Eight: Day One
• Chapter Nine: Day Two
• Chapter Ten: Day Two
• Chapter Eleven: Day Two
• Chapter Twelve: Day Two
• Chapter Thirteen: Day Two
• Chapter Fourteen: Day Three
• Chapter Fifteen: Day Three
• Chapter Sixteen: Day Three
• Chapter Seventeen: Day Three
• Chapter Eighteen: Day Three
• Chapter Nineteen: Day Three
• Chapter Twenty: Day Three
• Chapter Twenty-One: Day Three
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Day Four
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Day Four
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Day Four
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Day Four
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Day Four
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Day Five
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Day Five
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Day Five
• Chapter Thirty: Day Five
• Chapter Thirty-One: Day Five
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Day Five
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Day Five
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Day Six
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Day Six
• Chapter Thirty-Six: Day Six
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: Day Six
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Day Six
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Day Six
• Chapter Forty: Day Six
• Chapter Forty-One: Day Six
• Chapter Forty-Two: Day Seven
• Chapter Forty-Three: Day Seven
• Chapter Forty-Four: Day Seven
• Chapter Forty-Five: Day Seven
• Chapter Forty-Six: Day Seven
• Author’s Note
• Discussion Questions
• About the Author
• Selected Titles from She Writes Press