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Mrs. Pollifax (now remarried, I assume in one of the books I missed) discovers a young woman hiding in her closet; when she asks Carstairs for help protecting her, they are both stashed in a carnival that’s a front for spies in need of stashing. Unfortunately his last one was just stabbed there. Oops. Pro: Mrs. Pollifax is conveniently on hand to investigate. Con: So is the stabber.
Fun but not my favorite entry in the series. There is a foreshadowed but still sudden turn in which the carnival portion of the story abruptly ends and then they all go to Africa. As one does. In other series entries, all the supporting characters had full arcs; in this one, some did but others were left hanging.
I was also frustrated by the suggestion that Mrs. Pollifax pretend to be a psychic and tell fortunes, only for them to decide that would be too difficult and instead had her pretend to be a journalist and interview people. What a bait and switch! Mrs. Pollifax telling fortunes would have been hilarious. In fact I am going to add that as a prompt to my Trick or Treat letter right now.
Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
Fun but not my favorite entry in the series. There is a foreshadowed but still sudden turn in which the carnival portion of the story abruptly ends and then they all go to Africa. As one does. In other series entries, all the supporting characters had full arcs; in this one, some did but others were left hanging.
I was also frustrated by the suggestion that Mrs. Pollifax pretend to be a psychic and tell fortunes, only for them to decide that would be too difficult and instead had her pretend to be a journalist and interview people. What a bait and switch! Mrs. Pollifax telling fortunes would have been hilarious. In fact I am going to add that as a prompt to my Trick or Treat letter right now.
Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
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If no one at AO3 has ever written a team-up between Mrs. Pollifax and Madame Karitska, they really should.
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I really did not like the late-written sequel Kaleidoscope to the point that I can't remember anything else about it, but as of the last time I checked The Clairvoyant Countess still held up.
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