The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax [Hardcover]

Dorothy Gilman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1966

PUBLISHED FOR THE CRIME CLUB BY DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY INC NO ISBN COPYRIGHT 1966

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday / Crime Club; 1st Edition Not Stated edition (1966)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739411438
• ISBN-13: 978-0739411438
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,945 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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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unexpected first adventure, January 31, 1997

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Mark Baker (Santa Clarita, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mass Market Paperback)

The first book in this great series is suspensful. A bored Mrs. Pollifax decides to take up spying to enliven her life. Her first assignment sends her to Mexico, but it isn't long before she's in Albania as a prisoner. Her escape is truly amazing.
The book dragged a little in the middle while she is a prisoner, but I read the last third in one sitting; there was no place to put it down and not have Mrs. Pollifax in trouble!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Mrs. Pollifax Novel of the Series - Very Enjoyable, August 5, 2006

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This review is from: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mass Market Paperback)

If you're new to the Mrs. Pollifax series of mystery books - this is the very first. As such, it's a great place to begin. You'll be completely entertained learning how this grandmother goes to work - undercover - for the United States government. She really is unexpected, as the title declares. She's everything you would wish a grandmother to be - but she's extraordinarily clever, notices details on the fly and incredibly resourceful. If you enjoy Miss Marple from Agatha Christie - you'll also love Mrs. Pollifax. (Although I'd never say the two are interchangeable - they seem to go at detection in entirely different ways). We get into the characters thoughts often - rather than just being pulled through a story's actions blindly. It makes her escapades all the more harrowing when you develop such a feeling for what each side is thinking. Very entertaining. A great bed time read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected but totally Unsurpassed, January 18, 2006

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Trystan Skeigh "A Pollifax Wanna-Be" (Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mass Market Paperback)

Meet the most delightful and utterly lovable spy ever, who displays all the best and brightest aspects of being human.

An unlikely spy-type, Mrs. Pollifax is the ideal grandma: funny, empathetic, adventuresome, and delightfully and gently nonconformist. And, best of all, she is completely and unexpectedly effective at stopping evil.

A retired widow facing monotony, does she take up crosswords and subscribe to cable? Nope, Mrs. Pollifax decides to become a spy and spend her golden years saving the nation from evil.

Of course. And why not?