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MRS. POLLIFAX AND THE WHIRLING DERVISH (Spy Novel-Mrs. Emily Pollifax-Morroco-Cont) – G+
Gilman, Dorothy – 9th in series
Fawcett Books, 1990, US Paperback – ISBN: 0449147606
First Sentence: They had been waiting among the low dunes for two days, a few goats feeding nearby on an impoverished growth of desert grass.
Emily Pollifax’s husband is away and she’s feeling bored. That soon ends when she is sent by the CIA to Morocco. She is to connect with another agent to locate and identify seven undercove ...more
Gilman, Dorothy – 9th in series
Fawcett Books, 1990, US Paperback – ISBN: 0449147606
First Sentence: They had been waiting among the low dunes for two days, a few goats feeding nearby on an impoverished growth of desert grass.
Emily Pollifax’s husband is away and she’s feeling bored. That soon ends when she is sent by the CIA to Morocco. She is to connect with another agent to locate and identify seven undercove ...more
This is probably my favorite of the Pollifax series, and it was fun to reread it. I read it ages ago, and all I remembered was that I liked it, and a throw away line Mrs. Pollifax has about the direction of U.S. foreign policy.
There are certain inviolable rules in the world of Mrs. Pollifax: Kindness is ultimately rewarded; one's true nature is revealed by the small ways we (mis)treat one another; true love, adventure, and mastery of karate can be achieved in one's late sixties. It's not a part ...more
There are certain inviolable rules in the world of Mrs. Pollifax: Kindness is ultimately rewarded; one's true nature is revealed by the small ways we (mis)treat one another; true love, adventure, and mastery of karate can be achieved in one's late sixties. It's not a part ...more
Mrs. Pollifax is sort of across from Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher. But I liked Mrs. Pollifax more. She had real feelings, fears and thought processes. Mrs, P goes to Morocco, and the descriptions of Morocco's land, culture and people is well done.(I think.I tend to read my "series books" in order to ease confusion, but felt right at home reading #9 as my first Mrs. P. I am participating in the UN Country Challenge I will be reading more of these as her character goes all over the world.
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Oct 28, 2012
Sean
marked it as mysteries-to-read
