The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax, By Dorothy Gilman, Unabridged 5 Audio Cassettes, Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat
"THE ELUSIVE MRS. POLLIFAX By Dorothy Gilman, Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat." "Mrs. Pollifax has a beautiful new hat, an event worthy of the attention of the Garden Club in New Brunswick. But only Mrs. P. and that nice Mr. Carstaiirs at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, know it conceals not only Mrs. P"s remarkable brain but eight false passports. All Mrs. Pollifax has to do is to deliver them to a man called Tsanko in Bulgaris. Simple. But, as fans and followers of the exquisite Mrs. P. know by now, nothing is ever plainly simple nor ever less than wildly adventurous: using fireworks, a bow and arrow, and a gaggle of geese, Mrs. Pollifax must engineer an escape from a Bulgarian prison---a little more problematic than smuggling some passports... During the night Mrs. Pollifax experienced a nightmare in which she was lying in bed and being ovserved... burglar who had entered her room. As she fought back to consciousness she discovered that she was indeed in bed, it was night and a man was standing at the foot of the bed looking down at her. He was clearly silhouetted against the window. "Mrs. Pollifax waited, breath suspended, for the man to identify himself as Tsanko. He did not. He moved stealthily away from the foot of the bed and went toward the closet, where he turned on a small flashlight. He leaned over the lock, his back to her. "If he wasn"t Tsanko, she thought indignantly, then he must be a plain, old-fashioned burglar, and without stopping to consider the risks Mrs. Pollifax slid out of her bed and stood up. Carefully tiptoeing along the wall she came up behind the man, flattened her right hand and delivered a medium karate chop---at least she hoped it was only a medium below---to the side of his neck and watched him sink to the floor." ---from The Elusive Mr. Pollifax [from back of casecover]