Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha [Hardcover]

Dorothy Gilman (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday Books (1969)
• ASIN: B002U2KT8E
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Dorothy Gilman is the author of thirteen Mrs. Pollifax novels, beginning with The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax and continuing through Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist. She lives in Westport, Connecticut.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mrs. Pollifax meets old friends, April 16, 2003

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mass Market Paperback)

The newly-married Mrs. Pollifax is in the process of fixing up her new home in the country when Bishop appears on her doorstep and offers her another assignment for the CIA. Cyrus is out of town and Mrs. P. must give an immediate answer, so an hour later she is on her way to Hong Kong. Her mission is to contact Sheng Ti, whom she met in an earlier book and find out what is going on at Feng Imports where Sheng Ti is working for an agent named Detwiler. Detwiler's reports to the CIA have proved to be false, so he is suspected of being a counterspy and giving evidence to the enemy. Mrs. Pollifax meets some other interesting characters, including a psychic, and another old friend who is a reformed cat burglar while in pursuit of the truth about Feng Imports. She is captured and suffers from some unnecessarily harsh treatment, probably the reason this is not most people's favorite book of the series.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Downright Disturbing, July 3, 2001

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Bradley Cooper - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mass Market Paperback)

I remember distinctly that my grandmother did not care for this episode in the Pollifax adventures. "Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha" was a little too violent and disturbing for her. I, on the other hand, love it! Thrilling, exciting, never a dull moment. Not for the squeamish!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another intriguing adventure!, March 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mass Market Paperback)

Mrs. Pollifax has done it again! This story was wonderfully suspenseful! I did feel sorry for Cyrus, though, I mean coming to Hong Kong thinking his wife is perfectly safe and finds she's been kidnapped by terrorists! I'm glad everything turned out OK. There's one more thing I want to say; these books were reccommended to me by a nice elderly woman at Media Play and I just want to say, where ever you are, thanks.