What do You think about Mrs. Pollifax On The China Station (1985)?
#6Characters: Mrs P., Mr Li (Chinese Guide), Peter Fox, Iris, Ginny, Malcolm, etc...She is in a guided tour group to China. Her job is to seek out a barber shop near the drum tower in Xi'an (where the Terracotta soldiers are located).From the barber, she is to find out where a labor camp is located. One of the members on the tour is also CIA agent (but she does not find this out until she gets the info from the barber - it is Peter Fox who is a 22 yrs old fairly new agent).Then the adventure really begins. In the meantime we find out about the other members of the tour, who are not aware of what is going on with Mrs P & Peter.Peter then fakes his own death, and gets a prisoner out of the camp and brings him to the US before the Russian's get to him.
—Judy
All of the books in the Mrs. Pollifax series are good, but Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station is one of the best.Mrs. Pollifax is off to China, this time - a country which has fascinated her ever since she was young. (That strikes a chord with me, and it is the first chord of many that this book strikes.) Mrs. P is to join a tour group for Americans, seeing many of the sights of China, as cover for her meeting with an informant who can supposedly pinpoint the location of a secret labor camp deep
—Jesse
Dorothy Gilman has written another fine cozy mystery. Her Emma Pollifax is a delightful version of Agatha Christie's Miss Maple with a little more pizazz! She has a brown belt in Karate and is a world traveler. This time Emma is helping spirit a Chinese disendent out of a labor camp and out of China. She is part of a travel tour group that is filled with interesting, quirky characters along with her coagent (whom she has to determine) and a double agent (whom she doesn't know). Great descriptions of various parts of China they visit along with a couple of miraculous coincidences make this a great cozy mystery.
—Loraine
