Mrs Pollifax Fan Blog

Archive for December, 2009

For those who have recently tried to view the website within the last week or so you may have gotten the message that the account was suspended.  That was my fault folks due to recent financial setbacks and the holidays I forgot to include the fee for hosting the blog.  I have been paying for this blog for about 7 years now and have enjoyed keeping it going but I need help now and hope you will help me if you can.

I am asking for $1.00 donations through the secure servers at Paypal from members who are able and willing to contribute to keeping this blog going. You can of course send any amount you wish and in any monies that Paypal accepts and they will convert it to US dollars.

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We have some very interesting things plan for the coming months for our fellow fans and look forward to hearing from you.  Have a safe and happy holiday!

Just got an email from JB with some very exciting news.  DOROTHY GILMAN HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE GRAND MASTER AT THE 2010 MYSTERY WRITERS AWARDS!  How about that for some exciting news?!?!?

Here is the excerpt from the announcement…Or you can view the entire announcement on the MWA website at:

http://www.mysterywriters.org/files/2010_GM_Ravens.pdf

MWA GRANDMASTER

I know that we may never get another book in the Mrs Pollifax series but I, as an avid FAN, would like to propose story lines that we can make up ourselves.  I have always wanted to go to Australia and I think a Mrs Pollifax story set in this country would be a GREAT idea.  There are so many possibilities for Mrs P. to get into trouble even if she was not “on-assignment” there.

Now according to the CIA World Fact website, which is the only place to look for information about any of the countries that Mrs Pollifax may go,  Australia is approximately  7.7 million sq km in area, has about 21 million people, races consists of white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1%  and the languages are English 78.5%, Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2%, Vietnamese 1%, other 8.2%, unspecified 5.7%.  Granted the country is smaller than the U.S. but it has vast territories with little or nothing in them that could hold a mystery or two.  Not to mention the close proximity to Japan, New Zealand, and hundreds of thousands of islands off the coast.  If there are any fans out there that live in Australia, have relatives who live there or have visited there it would be greatly appreciated if you could contribute a mystery or spy-type thing that has happened there in the last 40 or 50 years that we could make up our own story about.

It is a challenge to think of story lines and the carry through with them but between all of us I think we can come up with some interesting plots and twists and enjoy them together.  Remember to think like Mrs Pollifax, Carstairs, Bishop, Cyrus and even her children.