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Mrs Pollifax Movie Updates
Published November 3, 2011 | 
If you are a Netflix subscriber then you might want to take a look at the movies they have added recently. The Mrs Pollifax – Spy movie with Rosalind Russell has been added to their viewing list. My kids and I love the service we can watch movies and TV-shows as much as we want as many times as we want for only $8.00 a month. We use that service all the time even with cable at home. I can watch on my laptop wherever there is an internet service connection.
I have, again, emailed CBS sales department and requested that the Unexpected Mrs Pollifax movie with Angela Lansbury be released at least in digital format for buying and/renting on www.amazon.com. It seems a shame not to at least release their “made-for-tv” movies in a digital download setting if not on regular dvd. I propose that every fan of Dorothy Gilman’s who would love to see this movie go to the CBS website and send a letter requesting that they company release the movie on digital format! I told them that we would have at least 6000 people wanting to order the movie, if not more, from all across the globe. So, help get this movie released to the public as soon as possible take a few minutes and use the email form on the www.cbs.com website!!!!!
Dorothy Gilman Books Now on Kindle
Published October 21, 2011 | Good Day Fellow Dorothy Gilman Fans! I was cruising the Amazon site looking for new books to add to my new Kindle Reading Device and came across several of Dorothy Gilman’s books available on the Amazon Kindle Section of the Bookstore! Granted only two of her books have actually been converted to a Kindle Book version however several are being offered as audio book downloads from their server directly into your Kindle Device. How cool is that? Because there is no physical media or packaging involved the prices for these audio books are less expensive than the ones you order on CD or cassette tape (if you can still find them). I was so excited I can’t wait until payday so that I can order my first one. We have added the links to these books on our Dorothy Gilman Bookstore page under the category “Books on Tape/CD/Kindle“.
If you don’t have a Kindle Reading Device yet now is the time to get one! They are offering lower prices on their devices and are even offering a Colored Touch-Screen Version of the device called a Kindle Fire. You can look at one on our bookstore page under the heading “Kindle Devices”. It will not be shipped until the middle of November and as soon as I can afford one I am absolutely going to order one. I have enjoyed my lightweight Kindle very much over the last several months and look forward to using the colored version as well.
Favorite Characters
Published April 16, 2010 | Since I didn’t get any response the posting about what countries you would like to see a Mrs Pollifax book set in I thought I would try this one. We all have envisioned new stories with our favorite characters. We have created scenarios where our heroine is in trouble in some new location facing some new kind of “bad person”. Which of your favorite characters from all of Dorothy Gilman’s books would you like to see in a story together? Granted, some of her stories are set in the past and some has more of a 70′s and 80′s feel to them but if you could have any of her characters together in a book which two or three would you like to read about? We are talking fiction here folks so ANYTHING is possible.
My personal favorites would have to be Sister John, Mrs Pollifax and Madame Karitska involved in a mystery. Of all of Dorothy Gilman’s characters I think these will mess the best together. Sister John would be opened to the paranormal and we know that Mrs Pollifax has experienced it as well. So Madame Karistka having a flash about Sister John being in trouble and Mrs Pollifax being the only one to help her would be intriguing. Or, even Mrs Pollifax in trouble somewhere and Sister John being the only one to help her with the guidance of Madame Karistka. You can even expand the story to include one of the “side-kicks” of each of the story lines. Sister Hyacinthe with Sister John, Gaven O’Connell with Madame Karitska and Bishop being dragged along with Mrs Pollifax. Use your imagination and tell your fellow fans what you think would make a great story!
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Mrs Pollifax in your Country
Published January 5, 2010 | Do you live in one of the countries that Dorothy Gilman writers about? Of course, I live in the U.S. but I have never been to New Jersey. I went through New Jersey once on a train but you can’t see very much. Sadly, I have never been out of the country either. I believe that is one of the things I love about her books is that she helps you see the country, the people and what it might be like to visit that place. A good mystery setting with rich descriptive words about place and time makes a good story for me. Our favorite author has set her stories in Mexico, Italy, Albania, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and various parts of the Africa Continent.
If you have lived or are living in one of the countries and would like to share with us some of the modern descriptions we would greatly appreciate it. The names of one or two of the countries that she has written about may have changed since the books were published but we would like to hear from you anyway. If you have some pictures we could email them to me with a description and I would be happy to post them. Email to: jolene.macfadden@mrspollifax.com
Have a great January and hope to hear from you soon!
Mrs Pollifax in Australia
Published December 8, 2009 | 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.
ebooks
Published October 15, 2009 | Sadly, there are only two of Dorothy Gilman’s Books that are currently in Ebook form and they are offered by Barnes and Noble. You will need to install their free ebook reader and they can be used on iPhone/iPod touch, Blackberry, PC or Mac from their website.
The first one is for Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled which is the last book in the Mrs. Pollifax books to be released. This story finds our favorite heroine being sent to the desert with her old friend John Farrell to try and find an American Tourist who averts a plane being hijacked and then promptly disappears! You can click on the picture below and be taken to the Barnes and Noble website for each of these books.
MRS POLLIFAX UNVEILED:
The second book available on the Barnes and Noble website in ebook form is the very last book published by our favorite author called Kaleidoscope. This is a continuing tale of the fun and exciting adventures of Madam Karitska and her friend from the police Detective Lieutenant Pruden.
KALEIDOSCOPE:
As for Amazon Kindle they only have one product available and that is the Kaleidoscope Book. Click below to be taken directly to that page to purchase this book:
dorothy gilman kindle
Remember you can request that each of the Dorothy Gilman Books be placed in Kindle format by going to each page with the book and on the left side of the screen you should see a box that says something about requesting that this title be added to the Kindle line.
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