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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Fawcett (1985-07-12)
ISBN: 0449208648
EAN: 9780449208649
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
Release Date: 1985-07-12
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie's Miss Marple a rival to reckon with."
TORONTO STAR
A secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland--to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. Her mission: to track down a missing package of plutonium--just enough to make a small atomic bomb. It was a job that suited Mrs. Pollifax's talents. She's good with people and even better at sniffing out their secrets. But it was not until she became enchanted with Robin, the young jewel thief, that her new adventure really began....
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Customer Reviews
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More Pollifax
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-20
Getting more into this character- as she grows so do we. Mrs Pollifax is great.
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no rest at the Swiss resort for Mrs Pollifax
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-03-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
There's some missing plutonium, and the CIA has a mission for Mrs Pollifax. She goes to Switzerland to a "clinic", which is really a mountain resort. While there, she befriends a young Arab boy and a British cat burglar... and discovers danger of course. Much of the first half of this book is slow, but once she finds a dead body, the action picks up.
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Good Clean Fun!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-08-13
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Mrs. Pollifax an intrepid senior citizen who works for the CIA, is sent to a Swiss medical clinic to investigate stolen Plutonium. Along the way, she gets involved with a mysterious jewel thief, a precocious child, and sunbathing diva. Can Mrs. Pollifax discover WHO is smuggling the plutonium, and WHY? Or is she destined to be just another casualty at the health spa?I really enjoyed "A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax." Mrs. Pollifax, is a kind, engaging character whose outgoing personality and homey adivce, endear her to friends and enemies alike. In particular I enjoyed the character of Hafez and his grandmother. This was a great edition to the Mrs. Pollifax series, sure to delight readers young AND old.
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Mrs. Pollifax in Switzerland
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-02-26
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
There is some plutonium missing and Mr. Carstairs of the CIA decides that Mrs. Pollifax is the one to find it. He dispatches her to an upscale clinic in Switzerland, where he suspects the
contraband has been hidden. She begins a careful investigation of the guests at the clinic and soon befriends a young man and woman, and a young boy and his grandmother. She soon discovers that very few of them are who they claim to be and she becomes involved in intrigue with men who plan to overthrow the government of a small country. She, of course, displays the courage and ingenuity which Mr. Carstairs has learned to depend on, and she leads her outnumbered friends into the adventure of their lives. This is a delightful series.
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Another good Mrs. Pollifax outing
Rating (3)
Date: 2002-02-01
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
(Based on the audiotape, no longer available (?) )
For once Carstairs sends Mrs. Pollifax into the thick of it, to a Swiss spa where some plutonium thieves are thought to lurk. Once again she meddles in side issues, in this case a child who seems strangely frightened, which turns out to be at the heart of the whole situation. This is also where she meets jewel thief Robin and helps turn him to the straight and narrow. Another entertaining outing, well-read by Rosenblat, as usual.
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