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The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-gray eyes, diamant garters, and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective...
3) Urn burial
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1996
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 22 cm.
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. What with the reappearance of mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman, an angry outcast heir, and the luscious...
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English
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"Danger, excitement and love - this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing adventure. Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the second Phryne Fisher mystery, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things --dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. 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 except death, that is. The dance competition is trailing into its last hours...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
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Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011 [i.e. 2012]
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, accepts an offer from a caterer friend to do the baking for the film set of a new soap called "Kiss the Bride." While on the other side of town, a young woman is being unmercifully bullied by her corporate employers -- employers who spend a lot of time cooking the books.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is chosen to be the first elected Queen of the Flowers for St. Kilda's first annual flower festival, but when one her flower maidens goes missing, Phryne begins to investigate--with help from her friends--except that things become worse when Ruth, Phryne's adopted daughter, also disappears.
Author
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Honorable Phryne Fisher is hired to determine the cause of death of the son of a Pre-Raphaelite model, and at the same time is engaged to locate the lost illegitimate child of a wealthy woman.
11) The spotted dog
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover, is back! When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners. Corinna and Daniel need to pull together all the strings to find the connections between their...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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