The Clairvoyant Countess by Dorothy Gilman

Pruden and tells him that he will be married within fifteen months, to a woman with long, very pale blond hair and considerable psychic ability. Chekhov's Gunman: Foretold by Madame Karitska, rather than appearing herself.She calls herself 'Madame' rather than Countess because she doesn't really care. Given that she was a small child when her family escaped the Russian Revolution, it doesn't mean much to her. Blue Blood: Madame Karitska is technically a countess.The stepfather murdered his stepdaughter after her mother had left her all the money it turned out he had murdered the mother as well, and a fair number of earlier brides. The Bluebeard: Though his motive was very like the Black Widow.Bad Humor Truck: A significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy.A Friend in Need: Madame Karitska, to several people.Faber-Jones is stunned, after Zoehfeld's arrest, that so charming a person could be a murderer and spy. Above Good and Evil: The Big Bad downplays it when asked whether he used his powers for good or for evil, he chuckles and calls it a conventional question.

Pruden, and helps him in his investigations.

The titular protagonist is a psychic somewhere between middle and old age, once a refugee from the Russian Revolution, and only technically a countess. She died due to complications of Alzheimer's disease on Februat the age of 88.The Clairvoyant Countess and its sequel Kaleidoscope are novels by Dorothy Gilman about Madame Karitska. A Nun in the Closet won a Catholic Book Award. Her other works include The Clairvoyant Countess, Incident at Badamya and Kaleidoscope. Pollifax - Spy starring Rosalind Russell and the 1999 television movie The Unexpected Mrs. The series was the basis of two movies: the 1971 feature film Mrs. Pollifax, which became the first novel in the Mrs. In 1966, she published The Unexpected Mrs. Under her married name, Dorothy Gilman Butters, she began publishing children's books in the late 1940s including Enchanted Caravan and The Bells of Freedom. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Dorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on June 25, 1923.

The Clairvoyant Countess by Dorothy Gilman