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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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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1996
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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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"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...
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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
Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney sojourn, but they begin to go awry when Phryne's maid discovers her thoroughly respectable sister Joan has left her family for the murky nightlife of the Cross, and then postponed again because Phyrne is definitely not the woman to say 'no' when two delightful young men are of their knees, begging for her help in finding their friend innocent of theft. It all sounds simple enough as Phryne sets investigations...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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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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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.
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.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a series of jewelry thefts targeting the first-class passengers on P&O ocean liners, the powers-that-be ask Phryne Fisher to mingle with the upper classes to solve a case of theft on the S.S. Hinemoa, during a luxury cruise to New Zealand.
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.
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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 Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phryne has been invited to the grand manor house for a four-day extravaganza to celebrate the end of 1928; but when three of the party guests are kidnapped, Phryne must wade through a series of clues in order to find them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st U.S ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iconoclastic feminist sleuth Phyrne Fisher's eclectic household, which includes her Chinese lover, Lin Chung, is expanded by the arrival of her domineering younger sister, the "Hon. Miss Eliza Fisher," banished from England by their stern father. A pleasure trip to a local amusement park turns nasty when a ride on the Ghost Train produces an ancient and mummified corpse, complete with bullet wound. The probe into this long-ago murder becomes more...
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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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Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hrs., 56 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher, a super sleuth investigating a poisoning and a wrongful arrest, is thrust into the world of Jewish politics, poison, and kosher dinners while trying to solve the mystery with old friends Bert, Cec, Dot, and Inspector Robinson.
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...
18) 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 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
259 p.; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she tries to go on summer holiday, Phryne Fisher discovers that the Johnsons, who were supposed to be at the vacation home, are nowhere in sight, beginning a mystery that involves smugglers, pirate treasure, and the mysterious Madame Selavey.
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