The Elusive Mrs Pollifax (A Mrs Pollifax Mystery)

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"If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand ... The arrests grow insane."

At the very hour this message is en route to the CIA, Mrs Pollifax is waiting for her night-blooming cereus flower to do its thing. She hardly gets to see its flowers, though, before being whisked off for another daring mission halfway across the world.

Soon she is sporting a beautiful new hat - perfect for hiding eight forged passports.

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

Author Bio

Dorothy Gilman was born in New Jersey, USA in 1923. She enjoyed story-telling from a young age, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

During the 1950s and early 60s she wrote children's books under her married name Dorothy Gilman Butters. But it was the later Mrs Pollifax series of novels which properly made her name. She travelled extensively and many of her travels fed into Mrs Pollifax's adventures.

Gilman was awarded the annual Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 2010. She died in 2012.