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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) Urn burial
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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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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...
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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
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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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
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.
7) Ruddy gore
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
207 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
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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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
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...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008, c1994
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrells Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in Mrs. Witherspoon's irreproachable boarding...
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a plot centering on what happened to seven Australian soldiers on leave in Paris during World War I, Greenwood sprinkles the tale with cameos by various real-life figures, including Alice B. Tokias, and reflects on the lingering psychological effects of the Great War. Two of main character Phryne's friends among the group of seven who caroused together in Paris ask Phryne to look into the suspicious deaths of two of their mates.
Author
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.
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