Murder on the Ballarat Train

Publication Details
ISBN: 
9781741145571
Series: 
Phyrne Fisher
Year of Publication: 
1992
2005
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Author Information
Author Name: 
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Book Cover
Categories & Groupings
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Private Detective
Historical
Location: 
Melbourne
Ballarat
Book Synopsis

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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.

When the glamorous Phryne Fisher, accompanied by Dot, decides to leave her delightfully fast, red Hispano-Suiza at home and travel to the country in the train, the last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save their lives.

What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumours of vile white slavery and the body of an old woman missing her emerald rings. And Phryne is at the centre, working through the clues to arrive at the incredible truth before another murder is committed.

Fortunately, Phryne can still find a little time for a discreet dalliance and the delicious diversion of that rowing team of young men.

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