Omnibus edition of the first two Phryne Fisher Mysteries:

COCAINE BLUES

This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back.

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey 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 in Melbourne, Australia.

Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse--until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.

FLYING TOO HIGH

The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she's foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair.

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 flies even higher, handling a murder, a kidnapping and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consummate ease--and all before it's time to adjourn to the Queenscliff Hotel for breakfast. Whether she's flying planes, clearing a friend of homicide charges or saving a child from kidnapping, she handles everything with the same dash and elan with which she drives her red Hispano-Suiza.

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Also counts towards the 2015 TV Book Release Challenge.

I received this as part of the Australia day sweepstake. Thank you very much! I've not read any book by this writer before but it looks great.
Thanks also for the lovely postcard. Glad to know you and your partner are looking after the frogs of Queensland. ;-)

I loved these two novels. Thanks so much for introducing me to them Davros-10. Phrynne is a such a great character. I'm definitely going to work my way through this series. My local library has them too - yippee!
I think I will save this book for the next tea and mystery sweepstake in order to introduce Phrynne to another bookcrosser who may not have come across her.

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Brilliant. I enjoyed the televised series of these book and look forward to seeing what the book adds!

I read these in reverse order, which probably isn't the right way to do it as the first story sets up the decadence of the main character and the opulent life she lives. Fun, fast, and highly unrealistic these stories are a great way to forget the modern world. This is one of the few books that I think I prefer the tv series, as you can see the opulence of the clothes and furnishings and the Phyrne seems a more likeable person in the tv series.