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Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"1963- Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding answers to the shocking mystery just uncovered about her family. What she doesn't expect is for Bentley to ensnare her in her own story of becoming a controversial World War II spy and Cold War informer... Recruited by the American Communist Party to spy on fascists at the outbreak of World War II, a...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
At the request of her old CIA contact, Carstairs, Emily Pollifax leaves New Jersey and her geraniums for Africa, where she battles dark forces of evil to save an African leader from assassination.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Set in 1943, Maggie Hope, an American stationed in England who works for MI5, goes to Los Angeles, where Gloria Hutton, the fiancée of RAF pilot John Sterling, has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool. The police are quick to label the deceased a "hophead" and rule her death an accident, but Sterling refuses to believe their assessment and asks Maggie to investigate. Maggie's inquiry, which takes her to film sets, nightclubs, and other Hollywood...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
"What we are looking for--aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax--is evil in its purest form." Emily Pollifax is leading a very full life: garden club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the CIA sends her to a famous Swiss health resort where the world's intelligence agents have gathered. The mission: to track down some missing plutonium. Just enough to make a small atom bomb. She is good with people--and good at sniffing...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Pollifax embarks on a dangerous journey across the barren stretches of Morocco, determined to identify and warn the informants, but only one step ahead of her pursuers.
Author
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort, " and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
24 Blu-rays : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. No: A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
From Russia with love: James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
Goldfinger: While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate...
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