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When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Gaden Club tea in the afternoon. The last time she had heard the voice on the other end of the line it had sent her off on a journey that plunged her into a wild tangle of secret agents and high adventure. Now the man from the CIA was asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world. What could Mrs. Pollifax say but...
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This time trouble finds Mrs. Pollifax instead of the other way around. On a quiet spring day, when all she wants to do is plant basil in her Connecticut greenhouse, a missing salami leads her to a shocking discovery--a young woman has been hiding in her junk closet for two days, undetected by the ever-watchful Mrs. P.
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A mysterious assassin has already killed four vital international figures, and all that's known of him is his code name, Aristotle, until Carstairs of the CIA intercepts a message implying that the man has a rendezvous on a safari in Zambia. What could be more reasonable than that Carstairs send Mrs. Pollifax on safari too--his favorite part-time agent, the grandmother who raises geraniums in New Jersey and has a wicked karate slice.
10) Masquerade
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Liz Sansborough awakes in a strange house, with a man she doesn't know, and unable to remember even her own name. In a headlong chase through California, Washington, D.C., and Paris, Liz must sift through fact and fantasy to find out who she is and what is really going on.
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When Emily Pollifax recieves an airmail, special delivery letter bidding her to rest and recuperate in a convalescent home in Switzerland, she knows Carstairs is behind it. And within minutes, Bishop calls with a most astonishing explanation. Nine pounds of plutonium have been stolen in two separate shipments in America and England, and it is believed they have been sent with highly suspicious designs to the Hotel-Clinic Montbrison, a luxurious health...
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
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