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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!

If you haven’t had a chance to visit the Dorothy Gilman bookstore or you are looking for a copy of one or more of her books just click on the widget below and happy shopping…..

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.

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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.

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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:
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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.

Published in 2002

This is the last book published by Dorothy Gilman. All of her fans are terribly sad about this and hope that there is at least one more book out there that she has yet to publish!

Kaleidoscope

Published in 1999

Andrew Thale, son of stuffy corporate V.P. Horace, has been asked by his father to look over the property in Massachusetts that Horace has inherited, In the absence of a will, from his reclusive aunt Harriet Thale five years before. Horace has been paying taxes on the empty house and its 25 acres ever since and is now thinking of selling or developing the property. Andrews, author of two well-received novels, is in a creative limbo and has, in desperation, been writing the newsletter for Meredith Machines. He dutifully departs in a company car for the remote, potholed road that leads to the Thale farmhouse, which lacks heat electricity and phone but is far from empty. Living there in contented penury are the strays Harriet Thale collected before her demise; elegant Miss L’Hommedieu, housekeeper-cook Gussie; passionate Marxist Leo, and beautiful young Tarragon. Andrew gets yet another surprise when he discovers his mother, who’d left Horace seven years ago, living happily in a cottage on the property. There are more odd twists in store for Andrew, the arrival of his father, the discovery of a hidden mill, but most important, the rediscovery of his creative self.

Thale's Folly

Originally published in 1992

It is set in North Africa during the 1914. The time is pre-World War 1 and Caressa Horvath, a 16-year who comes from a carnival family, is an expert juggler and pickpocket. She has been sent to a private school in Boston to satisfy the mother who is determined to make her a lady. Ever impoverished, Caressa makes an ill-judged attempt at theft that introduces her to wealthy linguist-anthropologist Jacob Bowman. He marries her, and soon after they leave on an exploratory mission to Africa — first to Tripoli, then across the Sahara. The expedition, through hostile Tuareg country, ends in disaster; but it is only the beginning for Caressa. She is taken captive and spends the next harrowing years fighting to survive enemies and the desert. Finding friends, finding love – only to discover betrayal on her return to civilization.

Caravan

Published in 1989

The story centers on a recently orphaned white girl, Gen Ferris, in Burma during the 1950′s. Her father was a widower and a missionary. After her father’s death she sets out on her own in the middle of a war to reach a relative in the U.S. Along the way she is captured along with others and held for ransom. And with this group of fellow captives she meets a mysterious Burmese puppet master who holds the secret to her mystical gift

Incident at Badamya

First published in 1979

This book is wonderful as well. I have read it at least 3 or 4 times. “They’re going to kill me soon” is what the note said that shy Amelia Jones found in an old hurdy-gurdy. Armed only with the strange woman’s first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and where dark secrets just might uncover murder…….her own.

Tightrope Walker

Published in 1978

This thought to be an autobiographical book about Ms. Gilman. After her divorce she decides to move to Nova Scotia and describes her transition from raising two children to living alone and enjoying it. This book gets into a lot of philosophy. Kind of a slow read in some places but on the whole you get a sense of where the characters in her books come from.

A New Kind Of Country

Originally published in 1975

This is probably one on my most favorite books to re-read of Dorothy Gilman’s. I know I have read it at least 6 times over the years and would like to have the time to read all of her books again this year as well!

A Nun in the Closet

Originally published in 1975

Madame Karitska is living a quiet life right now but when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the midst of a seamier side of life, she must use all her resources to keep danger at bay.

Clairvoyant Countess