Title: Three complete Mrs. Pollifax mysteries
Description: White-haired widow, Mrs Emily Pollifax, from New Jersey, poses as innocent tourist in outlandish hats for three missions. Her childhood ambition to be a spy leads her to CIA Carstairs, who rescues her from boredom. In Mexico, Albania, Turkey, and Bulgaria, the courier relies on only English language, friendliness, kindness, ingenuity and determination to achieve exploits that astonish her handlers, enemies, and new allies.
1 The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax - In a Mexico City Parrot bookstore for microfilms, General Perdido kidnaps Emily and debonair John Farrell to remote Albania.
2 The Amazing Mrs Pollifax - Emily rescues decades-undercover Magda from killer mole in Turkey, allies with photographer Colin, piratical Sandor, psychic gypsy Anyeta.
3 The Elusive Mrs Pollifax - Emily, sent with 8 passports to Bulgaria, aided by aged Resistance leader Tsanko and athletic young Debby, eludes vicious General Ignatov, frees wrongfully imprisoned including kidnapped rich student Philip Trenda.
Subjects: Intelligence service, Emily Pollifax (Fictitious character), Mysteries, Fiction, Women spies