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PW Pick 2013
"Australian author Greenwood, having made a name for herself with the lighthearted Phryne Fisher series, succeeds brilliantly with this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.
Ptah-hotep,
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Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and members of her household are in danger from anarchists, they manage to foil a bank robbery while also solving the case of a missing young girl.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Overview: Phryne Fisher needs a rest. It's summer. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast. Where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists, including a parrot called Pussykins. What is the mysterious Madame Selavey hiding? Where are the Johnsons, who were supposed to be in the holiday house?
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1991
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English
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When the 1920's most glamorous lady detective arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she opts for the safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save the passengers' lives.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. At the same time she is asked to discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.
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Series
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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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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005, 1995
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English
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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.
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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...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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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.
12) Urn burial
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Series
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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.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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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...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
Description
When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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"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,...
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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...
19) Death by water
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With a series of jewelry thefts targeting the first-class passengers on P & O ocean liners, the powers-that-be ask Phryne Fisher to mingle with the upper classes to solve a case of theft on the S.S. Hinemoa, during a luxury cruise to New Zealand.
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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.
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