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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 13
Mrs Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
Dorothy Gilman
Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan.
The document encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein’s reign. Yet hardly are the two of them airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern intrigue begin to unwind. Mrs Pollifax’s seat neighbour is not the affable Arab businessman he pretends to be.
For Mrs P. and Farrell to elude their pursuers in such a politically volatile country is no easy matter. In fact, it can be downright deadly.
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
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A Serge Storms Adventure 22
Naked Came the Florida Man
Tim Dorsey
If you like your humour dark and twisty, then you’ll love Tim Dorsey’s outrageous Serge Storms series of crime novels.
America’s most lovable psychopath, Serge Storms and his human narcotic partner Coleman regularly carve a trail of destruction and marijuana roaches through the state of Florida.
This time, they embark on a new – and somewhat macabre – tour in search of the best cemeteries and tombstones of the famous and infamous in the state. Along the way, they run into conmen and hustlers who end up on the receiving end of Serge’s deadly but creative style of justice.
Welcome to Tim Dorsey’s slice of America – where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!
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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 3
The Elusive Mrs Pollifax
Dorothy Gilman
“If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? … The arrests grow insane.”
At the very hour this message is en route to the CIA, Mrs Pollifax is waiting for her night-blooming cereus flower to do its thing. She hardly gets to see its flowers, though, before being whisked off for another daring mission halfway across the world.
Soon she is sporting a beautiful new hat – perfect for hiding eight forged passports.
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
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Classic Canning 10
Young Man on a Bicycle
and The Goldini Bath
Victor Canning
Young Paul Ashcroft has travelled to the beautiful French Riviera. His goal: to make a lot of money. His methods: more than questionable. Following his motto ‘the world owes me a living’, he steals and swindles – using what he needs for himself and passing on the rest to those less fortunate.
After coming across the beautiful Villa Triton, he disguises himself as M. Durobat, a middle-aged Frenchman, to inspect the villa and to pawn the owner’s ornaments and paintings. At the local Casino, he becomes acquainted with the rich ladies of the resort. As he steals their jewellery, he blames the robberies on ‘Gringo the Greek’, a small crook he knew a long time ago.
But just as Paul’s schemes and tricks start to be fruitful and he falls in love with the intriguing Elise Benoit, the real Gringo the Greek appears on the scene, ready to take on the cunning thief who has been blaming him all this time…
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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 2
The Amazing Mrs Pollifax
Dorothy Gilman
“You are in effect replacing a dead man, Mrs Pollifax …”
When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that morning, all thoughts of her garden club tea in the afternoon have to wait. Her CIA handler is asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world. What can she say but yes?
Once again she finds herself off on an incredible escapade of international intrigue … this time from the exotic towns and countryside of inner Turkey, to a mysterious rendezvous with a gypsy caravan.
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 1
The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax
Dorothy Gilman
Mrs Emily Pollifax is a 60-ish widow wanting more from life than teas and garden club meetings. In search of adventure, she decides to offer her services to the CIA — who, after all, would spot a suburban grandmother as a cold war secret agent? — and adventure she finds.
Her first assignment, in Mexico City, doesn’t sound dangerous – until something goes wrong. She suddenly finds herself abducted across the world, embroiled in quite a hot Cold War… and her abductors find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most lovable and unlikely of international spies.
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A Tom Knight Mystery 1
Vanishing Act
Charlie Hodges
Ex-SAS officer Tom Knight is now a 73-year-old private detective in a seaside town, with a bad leg, a taste for good weed and a morbid fear of growing old. He’s also fallen in love with Fran, a sprightly 52-year-old carer at a retirement home. The bad news is that she’s dumped him for lying about his age.
So when she’s framed for the murder of three old ladies at the home he resolves to win her back by proving her innocence. His quest takes him behind the town’s veil of respectability… He even faces up to his fear of old age and dementia, by going undercover at the care home where the murders happened.
But will it be enough to win back the lady of his dreams?
Proving that you’re just as young as you feel, the Tom Knight mysteries combine delicious comedy with a precision-engineered plot.
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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 4
A Palm for Mrs Pollifax
Dorothy Gilman
“What we are looking for – aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs Pollifax – is evil in its purest form.”
Emily Pollifax is leading a very full life: garden club, karate, yoga – and a little spying now and then. This time the CIA sends her to a famous Swiss health resort where the world’s intelligence agents have gathered. The mission: to track down some missing plutonium. Just enough to make a small atom bomb.
She is good with people – and good at sniffing out their secrets. But it is not until she becomes enchanted with Robin, the young jewel thief, that her adventure really begins.
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
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A Mrs Pollifax Mystery 5
Mrs Pollifax on Safari
Dorothy Gilman
Mrs Pollifax is sent on a safari to smoke out an international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia.
“Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,” the CIA man told her. “One of them has to be our man.” It sounded simple enough.
But it wasn’t. Because shortly after she started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists. And right after that – well, read for yourself …
Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
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A Dover Mystery 11
Dover
The Collected Short Stories
Joyce Porter
Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction.
Honestly, why should he even be bothered to solve the case?
Collected here are eleven unforgettable short stories in the Dover series, from the 1969 story ‘Dover Pulls a Rabbit’, to ‘A Souvenir for Dover’.
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