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Those who have enjoyed Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax books will probably like The Clairvoyant Countess. Like Mrs. Pollifax, Madame Karitska is a resourceful woman blessed with common sense, inner strength, and a cheerful disposition born of experience. Madame Karitska, as Gilman writes, "was a countess, but this was of small regard to her and certainly she had never been a run-of-the-mill countess. She was first of all clairvoyant, and, secondly, she had spent her childhood years in the Far East as a beggar; it been her first occupation. During the intervening years she had become fabulously rich in Budapest, had lost her wealth in Antwerp, and was extremely poor in America but she had a saying, born of experience, that only the eternal things mattered." Throughout the book, Madame Karitska uses her abilities to help the police solve crimes and to improve the lives of the people she meets. In addition to The Clairvoyant Countess, Gilman is the author of Uncertain Voyage, A Nun in the Closet, The Tightrope Walker, Incident at Badamya, Caravan, and an adventure series starring the grandmotherly CIA agent Mrs. Emily Pollifax.
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