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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...
2) Ruddy gore
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
207 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung, and his grandmother, who briefly mistake her for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre where her night is again interrupted by a bizarre death onstage.
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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...
4) Urn burial
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1996
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada
What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did not commit? And why would you return?
Walter Desmond is back in Trafalgar, British Columbia, having been officially exonerated when new evidence showed corruption at worst, incompetence at best, by the Trafalgar City Police running the investigation....
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006, c1991
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the train to Ballarat, 1920s Australian feminist flapper and private investigator Phryne Fisher (Flying Too High) wakes up to the smell of chloroform. She saves all her fellow passengers, except an old, cantankerous woman whose body is found at the side of the train tracks. While investigating the murder for the woman's daughter, Phryne also takes in an amnesiac waif on the train who has no knowledge of why she is traveling in the opposite direction...
Author
Series
Publisher
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.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2007, c1992
Edition
1st U.S. trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
164 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Driving home late one evening, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. She alights to find a young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms...and all over her silk shirt. Enraged by the loss of the clothing, the damage to her car, and this senseless waste of human life, Phryne promises to find out who is responsible. But she doesn't yet know how deeply into...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in her third delicious mystery set in present-day Melbourne.
If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well--so when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Death at Victoria Dock, the next historical mystery featuring the wit and authenticity of Miss Fisher. When a terrible crime hits a little too close to home, Phryne will stop at nothing to seek out the truth.
"Those who like their heroines resourceful and their mystery plots leavened with humor will read this with pleasure."-Publishers Weekly
Looking for a thrilling detective novel? This...
13) 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...
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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.
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.
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, amateur detective and owner of Earthly Delights bakery, is faced with competition when a tall, gorgeous blonde opens Best Fresh Bread down the street, and she wrestles with boyfriend troubles, outbreaks of madness on Lonsdale Street, and other complications, while trying to save her business.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c1994
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Blood and Circuses, the next historical mystery featuring an unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher uncover the truth without losing her life?
Looking for a thrilling detective novel? This story is:
• Perfect for Fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear
• Inspired the Netflix show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
• Movie Currently Streaming on Acorn TV
Phryne Fisher...
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