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Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The author of "Death by Misadventure" brings back her outrageous heroine, Australian sleuth Phryne Fisher, in the second mystery of this delightful series set in the roaring '20s. This time, Phryne has to figure out who finished off a family man whose entire family hated him.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found strangled to death."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005, 1995
Language
English
Description
Encountering a group of thugs en route to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore," Phryne Fisher rescues a handsome Chinese man and his grandmother, while later a bizarre death onstage interrupts the theatrical festivities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Ten years after seven Australian soldiers, on leave in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, two of the group turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, and two of their companions turn to their friend Phryne Fisher to investigate the crime, save their lives, and uncover a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004, ©2002
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is back, as smart and sassy as ever. Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitiment with Phryne's two daughters Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bulled-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fisher's pleasure trip has definitely become business. Digging to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that week. Bookending her pleasant dinner with her new friend...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things--dancing to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-coloured georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable Phryne--especially on a dance floor with so many delectable partners. Nothing but death, that is.The dance competition is trailing into its last hours when suddenly a figure slumps to the ground. Phryne,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious invitation arrives for the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But the pair barely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, super-sleuth Phryne Fisher is plunged into a word of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams, Phryne's stealth and wit ultimately solve the crime - and all for the price of a song.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, ©2003.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that celebrated young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime and she's not afraid to use it. When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, she takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions. But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to...
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