Away With the Fairies (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
by Kerry Greenwood | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1865084891 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1865084891 Global Overview for this book
Registered by rem_BBS-540553 on 10/17/2005
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From the back cover:
Phryne fisher -- dangerous, passionate, kind, clever and seductive. she drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting and elegant dalliance.
It's the 1920's in Melbourne and Phreyne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.
OK, I admit it. I bought this book cuz I liked the cover. Also becuz I know this is written by a fairy popular australian mytery writer so even tho' I'm not into mysteries, I'm giving it a go.
Phryne fisher -- dangerous, passionate, kind, clever and seductive. she drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting and elegant dalliance.
It's the 1920's in Melbourne and Phreyne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.
OK, I admit it. I bought this book cuz I liked the cover. Also becuz I know this is written by a fairy popular australian mytery writer so even tho' I'm not into mysteries, I'm giving it a go.
