I know that we may never get another book in the Mrs. Pollifax series but I, as an avid FAN, would like to propose storylines 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 storylines 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.
