Book Rec of the Day 4/11/2007

Mrs. Pollifax is an elderly widow from New Jersey. She volunteers at the garden club and looks forward to spending time with her children and grandchildren. But it’s not enough, so she becomes a spy for the CIA. Dorothy Gilman’s delightful mystery series sends her plucky operative all over the world—China, Mexico, Zambia, Switzerland, Sicily—where she gets into more than one spot of trouble. The New York Times says, “Mrs. Pollifax is an enchantress.”

THE UNEXPECTED MRS. POLLIFAX, by Dorothy Gilman (1966; Fawcett, 1985)