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Kerry Greenwood
First edition 2004, reprinted 2017 –Title page verso.
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The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australias Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving…
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, and the Honourable Phryne Fisher decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being…
Phryne Foster, the 1920s most talented and glamorous detective, handles a murder, a kidnapping, and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consummate ease–and all before its…
Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. Then she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac…
First U.S. trade paperback edition 2010 –Title page verso.
Phryne Fisher is dancing at the Green Mill, Melbourne’s premier dance hall when suddenly a figure slumps to the ground, stabbed. Phryne follows the deadly trail into the dark smoky…
When the 1920s’ most glamorous lady detective, the Honorable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car…
In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a…
On holiday in Sydney, Phryne searches for her maid’s missing sister and investigates a break-in of a university dean’s safe.
The circus is in town, and St. Kilda is having its first Flower Festival. After one of her flower maidens vanishes, Phryne investigates the underworld with the help of Bert…
Baker-turned-sleuth Corinna Chapman has no intention of doing any more investigative work until it appears that someone wants Heavenly Pleasures, her friend’s chocolate shop, to fail.
It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four - day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden…
The fabulous Phryne - the 1920s’ most elegant and irrepressible sleuth - returns for her seventeenth adventure investigating the death of a man at St Kilda while at the same…
The author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries is back with a delightful new heroine, Corinna Chapman, owner of a Melbourne, Australia, bakery, who finds herself tagging along with Daniel on…
Daniel’s old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily set up residence in his house, and it doesn’t take Corinna long to work out that she’s tall, blonde, gorgeous and up to…
Miss Fisher’s murder mysteries –Cover.
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When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter…
Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and…
To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand.
When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark…
Corinna Chapman is an absolute delight.‘ Bookseller + Publisher Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover, is back! When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked…
Surrounded by secrets, great and small, the formidable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to vanquish injustice.
When a mysterious invitation arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown Captain Herbert Spencer…
The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, which features four brand-new stories.
Cassandra and Diomenes find their passion thwarted by the machinations of malicious gods against the backdrop of the doomed city of Troy.
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Corinna Chapman, owner of Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive. Neither of which this perfect size 20 with a genius for baking breads finds…
Introducing baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman … mysteries filled with gastronomical delights, humour and unexpected twists from the bestselling author of the Phyrne Fisher mysteries.
No one has less interest in mysteries than Corinna Chapman, who has bread to bake, but they seem to be arising spontaneously in the vicinity of her bakery, Earthly Delights…
If there’s one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can’t abide, it’s people not eating well - particularly when there are delights like…
It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella…
Corinna Chapman, amateur sleuth, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, returns for her fourth criminally entertaining and delicious adventure. When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors…
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…
Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia's favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fisher, returns in a case that will test her courage and judgement to the full.
When the redoubtable…
Princess of Colchis, sorceress and Priestess of Hekate, niece of Circe, and procurer of the Golden Fleece.
The devoted wife of Jason, and a brave adventurer with his Argonauts, Medea…
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Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best Party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza, and she promptly decides to accept. It all seems like good clean fun until three people…
Originally published in 2018 in Australia by Allen & Unwin –Copyright page.
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah…
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: TV tie-in Editions Popular PBS TV Series streaming now on NETFLIX Immerse yourself in the opulent, exciting and sometimes dangerous world of Australia’s leading lady-Det. Phryne…
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, and reluctant sleuth is troubled by the strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread. She’s even…
Someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas and then there are odd things happening at the Cafe Vlad Tepes (which attracts a very strange clientele indeed) … Another…
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Intrepid baker and erstwhile investigator Corinna Chapman returns triumphantly in her first adventure in seven years.
The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is up to her elegant eyebrows in mystery once again!
Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free…