wyvernfriend
Written on Nov 5, 2016
The eleventh Phryne Fisher murder mystery
Phryne Fisher - dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance.
It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne 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.
- ISBN10 1444838423
- ISBN13 9781444838428
- Publish Date 1 June 2018 (first published 1 April 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Ulverscroft Special Collection
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 318
- Language English
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