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Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. She alights to finds a pretty 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006, 1990.
Language
English
Description
Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight would be more than enough excitement for most people, but not for Phryne-amateur detective and woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In fact, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective flies even higher here, handling a murder, a kidnapping, and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consummate ease. And she does it all before...
5) Urn burial
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Vacationing at a Gothic mansion in Australia's Victorian mountain country, Phryne Fisher becomes embroiled in a mystery involving death threats to her host, the strangling murder of a parlor maid, and the presence of mysterious funerary urns.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006, 1991.
Language
English
Description
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save the passengers' lives. As they sleep, they are poisoned with chloroform. Phryne is left to piece together the clues after this restful country sojourn turns...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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
2007.
Language
English
Description
In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, super-sleuth Phryne Fisher is plunged into a word of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams, Phryne's stealth and wit ultimately solve the crime - and all for the price of a song.
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Phryne joins the staff of a women's magazine to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author, and her personal life is thrown into chaos when she receives a mysterious summons from her Chinese lover's family, followed by a series of threats and warnings.
11) Devil's food
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Corinna is disturbed when a local cult turns up, along with a malnourished body, that requires its members to eat only famine bread. Then her hippie mother arrives, hysterical, because Corinna's father has absconded with all their money and a desire for a younger lover. Someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas, and there is some very strange clientele at the nearby Cafe Vlad Tepes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and sometimes men for hire), appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918, and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne...
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher must save the attendants of 1928's most stylish party from murder in this Australian caper.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna Chapman's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy and a puzzle waiting to be solved by the hefty Melbourne baker.
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