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The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax is the third in Dorothy Gilman's mostly cozy/slightly goofy/fun IMO Mrs. Pollifax series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Most of the titles in the series address fairly "generic", if sometimes now rather dated, issues - e.g. the Cold War, theft of nuclear material, etc. A few of the titles in the series take a specific view of various world political situations of the time, and depending on your view of those situations, you may or may not enjoy those. This one is a fairly standard Cold War background.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K4C4GYU
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/elusive-mrs-pollifax

Spoiler:

“Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie's Miss Marple a rival to reckon with.”—Toronto Star

If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? Right now we desperately need passports and identity papers. The arrests grow insane.

At the very hour this message was en route to the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax was waiting for her night-blooming cereus to do its thing.

She hardly got to see it, however, because Mr. Carstairs was already on his way to recruit that gallant lady for another daring mission.

Soon the most unlikely of all international spies was sporting a beautiful new hat—perfect for hiding eight forged passports.

“Mrs. Pollifax is an enchantress.”—The New York Times