Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha — Dorothy Gilman

It's a long way from the garden club to the CIA, but Mrs. Emily Pollifax made the leap splendidly.

SOMETHING DANGEROUS IS IN THE HONG KONG AIR....

Faster than she can say her name, the newly married Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go on another adventure--her most dangerous assignment yet. Lured away from renovating her idyllic country home by an urgent agent Bishop, she flies off to Hong Kong, where young agent Sheng Ti, whom she'd helped smuggle out of mainland China in a previous mission, holds the answers to what is going on at the sinister Feng Imports--a one-time agency front.

Naturally, only Mrs. Pollifax has earned Sheng's trust, and only she can possibly stop what turns out to be a frightening and ominous plot involving illicit drugs, smuggled diamonds, a famous cat burglar turned Interpol agent, a mysterious psychic, and, of course, murder--quite possibly her own....