Product Description

A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the Queen of Suspense.

Henry Parker Britland IV -- wealthy, worldly, and popular -- is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday -- as clever as she is lovely -- has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. Only Mary Higgins Clark can so seamlessly meld spellbinding suspense, wit, and romance. My Gal Sunday is entertainment of the highest order.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44685 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon.com Review
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.

From Library Journal
Clark (Remember Me, Audio Reviews, LJ 5/1/95) tries her hand at political intrigue in this collection of four short stories. Her sleuthing team consists of former U.S. President Henry Parker Britland IV and his new bride, Congresswoman "Sunday" O'Brien. In "A Crime of Passion," they investigate a murder charge against Henry's former Secretary of State. Sunday is kidnapped by a man who simply wants to make a name for himself in "They All Ran After the President's Wife." In "Hail, Columbia," a 32-year-old murder is solved on board the Britlands' yacht. In each story, Clark concentrates on romance rather than suspense. Listeners partial to stories about high society will savor the descriptions of the four estates and other material spoils of the Britlands' successful political careers. However, this picture-perfect couple lacks the quirky appeal of Clark's other sleuthing duo, Alvirah and Willy Meehan (e.g., Weep No More, My Lady, LJ 8/87). Megan Follows's narration is adequate, and demand will likely dictate that most public libraries have this.?Beth Farrell, Portage Cty. Dist. Lib., Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Great!
Mary Higgins Clark has created perfect plots and a little addedromance to her short stories. The two main charectors are perfectly created. They show emotions and compassion and brawn and brilliance. They are not too smart or lovey-dovey, but they are not dumb or cold. The stories comply with whay happens in the world today. The author has made a story of the real world.

America's sweethearts solve the crimes and save the day
M.H. Clark is a half-step above Harlequin romance novels in this connected series short stories involving the picture-perfect former president Henry Britland and his new wife, plucky Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien. Yes, you will be entertained, in that Ms Clark, as usual, keeps a lively plot and has interesting, if somewhat cartoonish, characters in each story. All romance is P.G. and except for some P.G. 13-style action in story number two, is actually not a bad book to read to more sophisticated children -- children who are at the upper limit of being read to. The last short story, a really implausible narrative of a five-year-old French boy lost in the New Jersey woods (don't ask) is good enough to induce tears and schmaltz worthy of "The Other Manger" by Molly Wadsworth.

Watching a wheel go round is more fun that reading this!
Having read a few of Mary Higgins Clark's books I could not believe that this book was written by the same person. I have not been able to finish this book; it's so very very boring! This is a miserable collection of short stories and a complete waste of precious paper! I wish I could send it back for a refund - reason : lack of content, please recycle!