Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled<\/em>.<\/p>\nFor those of you who are not familiar with Mrs. Pollifax, she is a woman of “a certain age” who has joined the CIA at a time in\u00a0life when other people might enjoy sipping lemonade in a hammock under the shady limbs of a dogwood tree. (OK, I know that isn’t a great example, since most of us would rather be doing that… especially if we could be reading while lulling the time away, enjoying a cool breeze… But, you know what I mean…)<\/p>\n
Not so for Mrs. Pollifax! As a member of her local Save Our Environment Club, a woman working toward\u00a0becoming a black belt karate athlete, and a prize winning geranium grower, Emily Pollifax is not content to just enjoy a leisurely life. And, she is really good at her spy job. She fools the “bad guys” every time… with her innocent looks, and her outrageously “old lady” hats. (I don’t think her hats are described with that term, but that’s how I would describe them.)<\/p>\n
Dorothy Gilman has given me hours of reading enjoyment… whether I listen to her books or read them. Mrs. Pollifax is a character who comes to us fully-developed, very three-dimensional, and an added benefit of\u00a0her work as a spy is that she travels the globe, going to exotic locations which we (the readers) are able to enjoy.<\/p>\n
PS… For those of you lucky enough to be heading to\u00a0New York for the Edgar Awards at the end of this month (April 27-29) >>>\u00a0Dorothy Gilman is going to be the Grand Master!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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