- Fiction, Intelligence service, Emily Pollifax (Fictitious character), American Spy stories
A widowed matron decides to pursue her lifelong desire to be a spy, finds herself useful to the CIA, and successfully completes an assignment which takes her from New Jersey to Mexico City to Albania.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy Gilman
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Fawcett Crest
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781402523731
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Dorothy Edith Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the daughter of a minister. In 1940, she attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1945, she married Edgar A. Butters, Jr., with whom she had two children. In 1963, she attended the University of Pennsylvania. She divorced in 1965. She wrote mystery and spy novels, and is best known for her Mrs. Pollifax series. In 2010 she was awarded the annual Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
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