'Absorbing and worthwhile...You won't want to put the book down'PORTLAND TELEGRAMOnce again, Mrs. Pollifax, the cheerful little woman with the flyaway white hair and a penchant for old hats is plunged headfirst into another hair-raisi...

When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that Sunday morning, she quickly forgets all about her Garden Club tea that afternoon. For the voice on the other end belonged to a man she had never seen, a man from the CIA who asked her if she ...

As a psychic to the public, Madame Karitska has seen a lot. But when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the unforseen, she must use all of her resources to keep danger--and ...

Part-time CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax drops her gardening gloves and travels to Damascus, where an American woman has been kidnapped while thwarting a skyjacking attempt. With the help her companion, Farrell, and a young archaeologist nam...

'Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie's Miss Marple a rival to reckon with.'TORONTO STARA secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time th...

While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid...

'Like the proverbial first potato chip [this book] gives you an irresistible craving for the first six Mrs. Pollifax books.'Newport News DAILY PRESSAlthough recently married, Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go to China, where a y...

The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell -- a former CIA agent turned art dealer -- anxiously awaits them.But l...

Mrs. Pollifax is the American cousin to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.'TORONTO STARMrs. Pollifax has been sent on safari by the C.I.A. and told only to take pictures of all of her companions, in order to find the international assassi...

THE PACE NEVER FLAGS, bolstered by the shrewd Mrs. P. and a host of well-defined characters who all work their surprising wiles.'--Publishers WeeklyIn response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba,...

Returning to her apartment, the last thing that Mrs. Pollifax expects to find is a young woman hiding in her closet. The woman, Kadi Hopkirk, has been given something important by a friend, the son of the assassinated president of a f...

"Gilman keeps you turning the pages.'UPIAfter Gen Ferris’s missionary father commits suicide in 1950, it is up to her to get out of Burma alone. She has one hundred dollars in her knapsack, a slingshot, a magical Burmese pu...

'Mrs. Pollifax is an enchantress.'THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWMrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do somethin...

Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Husseins reign.Hardly are the two airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern ...