Dead Man’s Chest is the 18th book in the Phryne Fisher series by popular Australian author, Kerry Greenwood. It is January, and Phryne has decided to take her family to Queenscliff on holiday while her bathroom is renovated. But their arrival at the beachside house borrowed from Mr Thomas, an ant...
Over all the novel was rather good. [Hopefully no spoilers]LIN CHUNG - First off, I was extremely glad that Lin Chung made a reappearance. Like Phryne I've grown fond of the china man and was sorely disappointing in his less than prominent appearance in the last few books. He does make a grand [a...
This is the 20th book in the Phryne Fisher Mystery series. It is 1929 in Australia and Phryne is asked to help solve the murder of a conductor. She agrees and becomes a member of the choir. While doing that she also helps an old friend from WWI become more alive in the land of the living. Lots of...
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, even after 20 novels, remains true to herself in this latest mystery in which she even joins a chorus to sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah, exhibiting yet another talent to her apparently unlimited repertoire. The reason she undertakes the task is because not one but two conducto...
In addition to the short stories featuring popular 1920's detective Phryne Fisher, this volume includes a few recipes and illustrations of her hats, shoes, and of course her adorable self. Almost all are set in Australia, and include Phryne thwarting a blackmailer, finding a lost hat, lusting af...
We arrived on Miss Fisher’s doorstep in a “bass-akward” kind of manner: first by the television series from Australian Broadcasting being “recommended” by the Affinity Engine in Netflix, and then discovering that there is a whole shelf of books following the Honorable Phryne Fisher through her ca...
I first heard of Kerry Greenwood a few years ago - her series of mystery books focusing on Phryne Fisher was presented amongst various cozy mysteries, this kind of mystery which prohibits swear words, sex or violence. I was then between two minds - on the one hand, it seemed really I wasn't the ...
Greenwood brings several threads to this story of murder, greed and mayhem, and weaves them together in a jazz pattern. Phryne's sister Beth arrives from England all unexplained, and so abrasive and obnoxious that Phryne hardly recognises her. She leaps at the post and refuses to explain what's w...
On her way to the theatre, Phryne and her friend Bunji rescue an old Chinese woman from some thugs. In thanks, the woman and her son take her to their home for a reviving tot of cognac and a quick clean of their clothes. Phryne is immaculate, as always, but Bunji went all in and tore her stocking...
Oh, Phyrne, how much do I love you? A lot. From your unabashed sexual prowling to a decor sense that includes nude paintings of yourself, to the consideration that causes you to buy pretty things for your maid, you are a fine person.It turns out that you also solve mysteries, understand (but disl...
Alongside the synopsis given by Goodreads above, there is also a second case involving the disappearance of a wealthy young woman, Elizabeth Chambers, who has just returned from Paris. Her intended fiancé, M’sieur Anatole, asks Phryne to investigate and she discovers that Elizabeth's father, raci...
Away with the fairies is a British saying, meaning that a person is a little bit mad, distracted, or in a dreamworld.Miss Fisher is all of things at the start of this novel. Her lover, Lin Chung has been sent back to China on a silk buying trip and hasn’t been in contact for a while. She is more ...
Ah Phryne Fisher, you just keep seducing me more with every book. (Uh oh. Now the next one will be a clinker... What was I thinking?)Actually, I thought this one was going to be a clinker for the first few chapters: Phryne starts out totally bitchy and not at all her inwardly snarky, outwardly co...