Ace, Marvel, Spy
Copyright © 2025 by Jenni L. Walsh
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Digital Edition JANUARY 2025 ISBN: 978-1-4002-4675-5
Print Edition ISBN: 978-1-4002-4674-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Walsh, Jenni L., author.
Title: Ace, marvel, spy : a novel of Alice Marble / Jenni L. Walsh.
Description: Nashville : Harper Muse, 2025.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024034323 (print) | LCCN 2024034324 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400246748 (paperback) | ISBN 9781400246755 (epub) | ISBN 9781400246762
Subjects: LCSH: Marble, Alice, 1913-1990--Fiction. | Women tennis players--Fiction. | Women spies--United States--Fiction. | LCGFT: Biographical fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3623.A446218 A65 2025 (print) | LCC PS3623.A446218 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20240821
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024034323
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024034324