Dolly and the Doctor Bird

by Dorothy Dunnett

Book Overview

Dr. B. McRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father who has moved there from Scotland because of asthma. She is a savvy and tough young lady who shows much independence of mind and spirit. However,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140073299
• ISBN13: 9780140073294
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Yachting Fun!

I beg to differ with our estimable reader who reviewed this book before me. This is a great seventies thriller, and I think would make a great movie (a la James Bond style). The part in the book about the yacht outrunning a homing bomb on a power boat is worth reading the book for alone, but the rest of the book is great too. The "doctor bird" in this book is one of Ms. Dunnett's best characters. She might appear a bit anachrinistic but this book was written in 1970 after all. B. Douglas MacRannoch is a treasure - a tough, no-nonsence girl who thought up to this time in her life, that she could manage on her own. She meets Johnson and is swept unwittingly into an espionage game that really takes her by surprise. We meet all sorts of eccentric characters - the Begum, Dr. MacRannoch's father, and a Turkish ballet dancer of all things. It's a great romp of a book, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end and you find out that nothing is as it seems.