Private Detective

Raisins and Almonds

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

Super-sleuth Phryne Fisher steps, like an elegant cat, through this, her ninth adventure.

In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781865088808
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
1997
2002

Queen of the Flowers

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

The utterly delightful Phryne Fisher makes her very welcome appearance as St Kilda's Queen of the Flowers. But when a body washes up on the beach, she must leave the carnival and find the killer. This is the fourteenth seductive installment in the classic Phryne Fisher whodunnit series.

With more than a dash of glamour and serious helpings of style, the witty and courageous Phryne Fisher returns.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741142464
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2004

Murder on the Ballarat Train

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

In Phryne's third adventure, Phryne is off to Ballarat for a week of fabulousness, but the sedate journey by train turns out to be far from the restful trip she was planning.

For the elegant Phryne Fisher, travelling sedately is not at all what it seems.

'Lie still, Dot dear, we've had a strange experience.' But neither the resourceful Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher nor her loyal maid, Dot Williams, are strangers to odd events.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741145571
Location: 
Melbourne
Ballarat
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
1992
2005

Murder on a Midsummer Night

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of a man on St Kilda beach and trying to find a lost, illegimate child who could be heir to a wealthy old woman's fortune, Phryne needs all her wits about her, particularly when she has to tangle with a group of thoroughly unpleasant Bright Young Things.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741149999
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2008

Murder in the Dark

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

The delectable Phryne Fisher has been invited to the Last Best party of 1928. When three of the guests are kidnapped Phryne finds she must puzzle her way through the scavenger hunt clues to retrieve the hostages. Another sparkling mystery from Australia's Queen of Crime, Kerry Greenwood.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741147094
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2006

Murder in Montparnasse

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia.

The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue.

Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781865088068
Location: 
Montparnasse
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2002

Flying Too High

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she's foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair.

Danger, excitement and love - this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing adventure.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741145670
Location: 
Queenscliff
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
1992
2005

Death By Water

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

The divine Phryne Fisher returns in the fifteenth seductive instalment in the classic Phryne Fisher whodunnit series.

Who are you?' asked the doctor. You are not the standard cruise passenger, I can tell you that.'

Thank you,' said Phryne in a self-possessed manner. You are correct. I am a lot of things, some of which do not concern you, but mostly I am Phryne Fisher.'

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741145526
Location: 
New Zealand
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2005

Death Before Wicket

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

The sassy Phryne Fisher comes to Sydney! This is the tenth, classic Phryne Fisher mystery.

The sassy Phryne Fisher sets the seamy side of Sydney alight in her tenth adventure.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741140958
Location: 
Sydney
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
2003

Death at Victoria Dock

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book:

Phryne Fisher returns in her fourth magical mystery amidst bullets, sexy ex-anarchists, furs, tattooists and silken lingerie.

The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her fourth mystery.

A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly it's not another scene of glorious seduction - this time it's death.

Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
ISBN: 
9781741145564
Location: 
Melbourne
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
1992
2005

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