Mrs Pollifax and the Second Thief: Complete & Unabridged [Unabridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Dorothy Gilman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155690911X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556909115
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,047,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Different voice?, February 1, 2005

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Virginia Hammon (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mass Market Paperback)

Dorothy Gilman is one of my favorite mystery writers. I've read all of her first nine books many, many times, and highly recommend them. In this book and the ones that follow the author's voice shifts so completely, I wonder if she is actually the one continuing to write them. Mrs. Pollifax's character changes, she is "cross" several times in the first few chapters and the old Mrs. Pollifax was curious and philosophical and observant. This philosophical bent disappears entirely from these later books.

The adventures no longer sizzle along. An early chase in this book is poorly crafted; as it happens it is described without enough detail to make it interesting or suspensful and we are told Mrs. Pollifax looks back on it as a "nightmare," when there is no basis for this in the story. The earlier Mrs. Pollifax would roll with the punches and reserve "nightmare" for full fledged torture. These later books are so disappointing because the first nine are so wonderful....

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Recent books disappointing, April 24, 2001

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C. Dong (Corona, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mass Market Paperback)

The first 4 or 5 books in the Pollifax series are wonderful. This is the worst of those that follow. I think the problem that I am having is that Mrs. Pollifax no longer seems to be the author of her own success. Lucky chance may be the reason she wins through in the end, or some individual she meets up with does it all for her. And I don't care for these partnerships, especially with Farrell. The wonderful thing in the past was how Mrs. Pollifax would come to a case with lovely excitement and by being herself assemble a group of unusual people around her and inspire them to great things. The recent Pollifaxes have seem tired and dependent.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A surprising disappointment..., July 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mass Market Paperback)

I can wholeheartedly recommend all other Mrs. Pollifax books, but this one left me wishing it hadn't happened. The plot was obvious and contrived - not her usual level of writing at all. While it was nice to see old friends, they were not as entertaining and funny as they have been both before and since. I'd pass on this one.