- Phryne Fisher (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, Fiction, historical
In 1920s London, the Honourable Phryne Fisher has become bored with the party season. She set her sights on detective work in Melbourne, Australia. Once she books into the Windsor Hotel she's embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Kerry Greenwood
- First published
- May 31, 2006
- Pages
- 261
- Publisher
- McPhee Gribble, Bolinda Publishing, Poisoned Pen Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781590583852
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- Phryne Fisher (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Fiction
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Large type books
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Fisher, phryne (fictitious character), fiction
- Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
- Literature and fiction, historical fiction
- Mystery and detective
- Fiction, historical, general
Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has a degree in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. In 1996 she published a book of essays on female murderers called Things She Loves: Why women Kill. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues whic
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