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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

August 21, 2007 at 11:35 pm · Filed under Book Reviews, Mystery and Suspense

83. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (Spy Mystery) 192 p.

Emily Pollifax, a widow with children and grandchildren, finds herself dissatisfied with her comfortable, well-organized life. Depressed by her feeling of uselessness, she decides to make one last stab at fulfilling her childhood dream: to become a spy for her country. Applying for a job at the CIA, she meets with unexpected success—and plunges headlong into unexpected danger.

I enjoyed Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist when I read it a few weeks ago, but this book, the first in the Mrs. Pollifax series, is even more charming, as well as very funny. Mrs. Pollifax is a delightfully ordinary and intelligent heroine, and she meets a wonderful cast of eccentrics during the course of the novel.

Books read: 83/100 (83%)
Pages read: 24,989/25,000 (99.96%) (I think I’m going to up my page goal to 30,000)

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Fleiger wrote, on August 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pm:

Hmm… the subject does have a lot of (humorous, too) possibilities. We have a lot of sauve, sophisticated and bumbling spies, so I can see how a normal housewife spy can be interesting.
To be read list, seems like…

Poodlerat wrote, on August 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pm:

It is interesting…kind of a cross between an English cozy mystery and a spy thriller. Although actually the character Mrs. Pollifax most reminds me of is Nancy Drew.

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