There are 14 books in the Mrs. Pollifax series. The newest book is Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled which came out in 2000.

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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Book cover of The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
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.…

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The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax

The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Mrs Emily Pollifax is a 60-something widow who wants more from life than teas and garden club meetings. In search of adventure, she decides to offer her services to the CIA after all, who would spot a suburban grandmother as a cold war secret agent? "You are in effect replacing…

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The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
Mrs Emily Pollifax is a 60-something widow who wants more from life than teas and garden club meetings. In search of adventure, she decides to offer her services to the CIA after all, who would spot a suburban grandmother as a cold war secret agent? "If you make it across…

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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

"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…

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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

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…

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Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
The CIA's most senior, charming, and eccentric intelligence agent pursues the foe--in her own inimitable way--along the exotic and mysterious course of the old Silk Route

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Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Just recently married, Mrs Pollifax is persuaded at a moment's notice to travel to Hong Kong on a new mission. There a young agent, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to goings on at the sinister Feng Imports a one-time agency front. Mrs Pollifax has earned Sheng's trust, and only she…

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Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

Resolved to give up spying for good, Mrs Pollifax can't stop herself agreeing to carry a small object to an agent in Thailand, and get one in return.

The moment she lands, Mrs P. is horrified to find her contact dead and her husband kidnapped. The next thing she knows,…

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Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish

Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish
Mrs Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing... All she has to do is to masquerade as his aunt while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco and keep him from making an unpleasant ass of…

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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
This latest assignment for Mrs Pollifax seems a snap. She just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell, a former CIA agent turned art dealer, anxiously awaits them. But Mrs P.'s welcoming committee in Palermo includes…

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Mrs. Pollifax Pursued

Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
The last thing Mrs Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk insists that she is being followed by two men in a dirty white van. Under the cover of darkness, Mrs Pollifax tries to drive Kadi back home, only to have a dark…

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Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer

Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer
The intrepid Mrs Pollifax is drawn into another nerve-racking mission. In response to a desperate SOS, young Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs Pollifax joins her, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into…

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Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist

Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
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…

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Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled

Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
Mrs Pollifax undertakes perhaps her most high-stakes mission of all. After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, possibly murdered. Masquerading as her…