Kerry Greenwood
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 4
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When someone shoots out her windshield while she is driving home late at night and she finds a young man dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates, Phryne Fisher sets out to find out who is responsible, following a trail that leads her into the midst of a bizarre mystery involving bank robbery, tattoo parlors, spiritualism, anarchists, kidnapping, and murder.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 2
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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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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 1
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It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its...
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 16
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Phryne Fisher must save the attendants of 1928's most stylish party from murder in this Australian caper.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 5
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In the midst of a dance competition at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall, flapper-turned-sleuth Phryne Fisher is stunned by a mysterious death and launches a personal investigation that sends her on the trail of a dark family tragedy dating back to the Great War.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 17
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The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. At the same time she is asked to discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 9
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After the death of a student in a bookshop and the arrest of Sylvia Lee, a popular bookseller, Phryne Fisher investigates the case and discovers a darker, more political situation than the police's theory of a crime of passion.
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PW Pick 2013
"Australian author Greenwood, having made a name for herself with the lighthearted Phryne Fisher series, succeeds brilliantly with this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.
Ptah-hotep,
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 14
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When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 7
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Encountering a group of thugs en route to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore, " Phryne Fisher rescues a handsome Chinese man and his grandmother, while later a bizarre death onstage interrupts the theatrical festivities.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 6
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Socialite Phryne Fisher tries to discover who is sabotaging Farrell's Circus.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 18
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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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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 3
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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. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors 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...
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 12
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Ten years after seven Australian soldiers, on leave in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, two of the group turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, and two of their companions turn to their friend Phryne Fisher to investigate the crime, save their lives, and uncover a killer.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 10
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Heading for Sydney for a holiday, Phryne Fisher finds her plans interrupted when her maid Dot discovers that her respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the care of a resentful husband, and Phryne trawls the city's underworld to find the missing woman, all the while investigating the theft of some valuable items from the university dean's safe.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 19
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When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 13
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Sleuth Phryne Fisher's trip to an amusement park is ruined by the discovery of a mummified corpse and her attempt to solve the mystery takes her to the town of Castlemaine, where unknown assailants try to stop the investigation.
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Phryne Fisher mystery volume 15
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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.
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"When a mysterious invitation arrives for the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But the pair barely...
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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.