- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; 1 edition (Feb 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671014919
- ISBN-13: 978-0671014919
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #475,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Imagine Nick and Nora Charles with a taste for politics and none for gin, and you'd be pretty close to Mary Higgins Clark's Henry Parker Britland IV and his attractive young wife, Sandra O'Brien Britland, known as Sunday. Henry, possessor of an enormous inherited fortune and known as one of America's sexiest men, has just finished his second term as president of the United States and is happily retired at 44, puttering around his New Jersey country estate. Sunday, who bootstrapped her way up from a modest working-class background, is a junior congresswoman with a reputation for smarts. The two met, romantically enough, on the eve of Henry's leaving office, fell madly in love, and were married six weeks later. In this collection of four pleasantly readable stories, the sleuthing duo catch the murderer of a statesman's flashy amour, endure Sunday's kidnapping and mastermind her rescue, solve the 34-year-old mystery of the disappearance of a foreign prime minister from the Britland family yacht, and reunite a ransomed boy with his parents at Christmas. Of the four, "They All Ran After the President's Wife" may be the best plotted, and has a particularly amusing McGuffin in the character of a caviar-loving terrorist. While the suspense is on the mild side throughout, the romance is lighthearted but sincere, and the occasional flashes of wit are dryly appealing. It's a bonbon, to be enjoyed for its brief sweetness. --Barrie Trinkle
From Publishers Weekly
An appealing husband-and-wife sleuthing team are the stars of the four stories in Clark's new collection. Her protagonists are Henry Parker Britland IV, the 44-year-old former president of the U.S., and his recent bride, plucky congresswoman Sandra ("Sunday") O'Brien Britland. Debonair, wealthy Henry and smart-as-a-whip Sunday enjoy their estates in New Jersey, Florida, the Bahamas and Provence, and other perks of Henry's patrician background, such as a private jet and an elegant yacht. But they keep getting embroiled in dicey situations. The best entry, "They All Ran After the President's Wife," features two genuinely eccentric and creepy evildoers and a kidnapped Sunday in peril. Although nicely set up and suspenseful, it suffers from a rushed denouement. A pleasant diversion, "Hail, Columbia," takes place aboard the Britlands' yacht, from which the prime minister of Costa Barria had disappeared 32 years earlier after having given the then 12-year-old Henry an envelope, which has also vanished?until clever Sunday finds the missing link. A kidnapper from the wrong side of the tracks who improbably speaks fluent French is the drawback to credibility in "Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noel," and the lead entry, "A Crime of Passion," is a clunky no-brainer. But Clark uses every occasion to celebrate her gorgeous newlyweds' delirious happiness and misses no opportunity to cater to those readers who favor a little romance with their mild suspense. 800,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Read at your own risk - and only if you liked Legally Blonde,
By Lacey Savage (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Gal Sunday (Mass Market Paperback)
Henry Parker Britland IV is the ex-president of the United States. Newly married, he wants nothing more than to relax with his beautiful young wife. Unfortunately, the ex-president seems to attract trouble, and in MY GAL SUNDAY, he and his new wife find themselves in the middle of three precarious situations. Three short stories comprise this short book, and the mysteries seem to get progressively worse. I read one novel by Mary Higgins Clark prior to this one, and my expectations were high. However, I was incredibly disappointed with these three short mysteries. They were predictable, dull, and uninteresting. And worse, the endings were sudden, leaving me with the distinct impression that the story didn't so much end, but that Mrs. Higgins Clark had run out of things to say. Hey, maybe she became as bored with the characters while writing as I did while reading. Mr. Ex-President was much too whiny for my taste, while his lovely wife seemed more like Elle Woods in Legally Blonde than the wife of a president in her own right. The book's only redeeming quality is that it's a quick read. At only 206 pages, it'll only kill one afternoon out of your life.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Audio Book!,
This review is from: My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (Audio Cassette)
I didn't read the book My Gal Sunday but I listened to an audio cassette recording of it read by an actress named Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables). I know a lot of Mary Higgins Clark's fans didn't like My Gal Sunday and I do agree it's not the best of her books I have listened to on audio cassette but it's not the worst either and it was actually pretty entertaining and Sunday and her husband are good characters and the short stories are fun but as much as I like Megan Follows as an actress I think she could have put a little more emotion into her reading. Her reading wasn't awful but she could have put a little more oomph into it! My opinion, This is not as bad as people are saying but everyone is intitled to their own opinion, positve or negetive! BTW: I bought the paperback book and plan on reading it as soon as I read some other books first.
4.0 out of 5 stars
My Gal Sunday,
By A Customer
This review is from: My Gal Sunday (Mass Market Paperback)
Summary: Henry a former president and his wife Sandra O' Brien Britland also known as Sunday have just found out that there former Secretary of State Tommy has just been accused of the murder of his wife Arabella Young. But the twist is that Tommy does not remember the night. He was found laying on his bed with his wifeï¿s dead body laying on the library floor. He was accused of killing his wife and then going back up to bed like it was nothing. Henry and Sunday decided to take matters into there own hands and investigate close friends and the housekeeper. They find out from witnessing a revolver in their face that the killer of Arabella was clearly the housekeeper Lillian. Later on while Sunday was in her car with two secret service agents, they have been knocked out by a gas bomb of some sort, and Sunday has been kidnapped. Now Henry is on a search to find out who has captured his wife and where she is being held. But Henry doesnï¿t know that Sunday knows the captor is a former employee that Sunday has defended. Who knows will the captors give Sunday back safely once they get their demands or will they turn on them and kill her? Review: I think this book was great because it has mystery, horror, and suspense. I think that mysteries are great books to read because they keep your wandering whatï¿s going to happen next, and it keep you wanting to read more and more. I also think this book was great because the plot is exciting and always changing, not like some books who drag on with the same thing and go on and on. I liked this book because it kept me reading and since Iï¿m not a big reader it still kept me wanting more. Recomondation: I recommend this book to any one who likes to ready mystery, horror, and suspense. This book takes you to a different place and you feel as if your can relate to the character in the book and what they are going through. I recommend this to teenagers and adults because for children to follow this it would be hard because there is a lot of vocabulary and certain things I think a kid would not understand. I would most likely recommend this to girls because I think girls are more into reading mystery books because guys usually read something about sports or war.
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