Dorothy Gilman

When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Gaden Club tea in the afternoon. The last time she had heard the voice on the other end of the line it had sent her off on a journey that plunged her into a wild tangle of secret agents and high adventure. Now the man from the CIA was asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world. What could Mrs. Pollifax say but...

Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on safari by the C.I.A. and told only to take pictures of all of her companions, in order to find the international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. It sounded so simple, but shortly after Mrs. Pollifax started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists.

When Alison Bartlett is found murdered in her apartment, Lieutenant Pruden seeks the help of pyschic, Madame Karitska.

Gen Ferris, the only daughter of an American missionary in Burma, is held hostage with a group of lost travelers.

In Massachusetts an indentured servant faces some hard answers in his own war between liberty and loyalty during the American Revolution.