Murder on a Midsummer Night: 17 (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries) - Softcover

Greenwood, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464209774 ISBN 13: 9781464209772

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2018

Synopsis

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher

"As usual, Greenwood populates the novel with an assortment of offbeat characters...and Phryne has plenty of opportunities to unleash her acid tongue and apply her razor-sharp wit." --Booklist

The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, has been engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He had some strange friends--a Balkan adventuress, a dilettante with a penchant for antiquities, a Classics professor, a medium, and a mysterious supplier who arrives after dark on a motorbike. Simultaneously, she is asked to discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.

With the help of her sister Beth, the cab drivers Bert and Cec, and even her two adoptive daughters, Phryne follows eerie leads that bring her face-to-face with the conquest of Jerusalem by General Allenby and the Australian Light Horse, kif smokers, spirit guides, pirate treasure maps, and ghosts.

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Review:

"As usual, Greenwood populates the novel with an assortment of offbeat characters...and Phryne has plenty of opportunities to unleash her acid tongue and apply her razor-sharp wit."--Booklist

"Flapper-era Australia is a setting that U.S. readers will find intriguing; also compelling are Phryne and her adopted daughters, Chinese lover, and assorted wacky acquaintances. Happily, Greenwood's stories are as clever as her characters. This is one to try if you enjoy Sophie Hannah's Agatha Christie mysteries - it's the same era and stars similar kinds of characters, just down under."--IndiePicks

About the Author:

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written twenty books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1464209774
• ISBN 13: 9781464209772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256