Murder in the Dark - (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback)) by Kerry Greenwood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 are kidnapped, and Phryne must save the party from further disaster.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly decides to accept the invitation. No one tells Phryne Fisher what to do. At the Manor House, she is accommodated in the Iris room, and at the party dallies with two polo-playing women, a Goat lady (and goat), a large number of glamorous young men, and a very rude child called Tarquin. The acolytes of the golden twins are smoking hashish and dreaming. The jazz is as hot as the drinks are cold. Heaven. It all seems like good clean fun until three people are kidnapped, one of them the abominable child, and Phryne must puzzle her way through the cryptic clues of the scavenger hunt to retrieve the hostages and save the party from further disaster.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A party invitation leads Phryne Fisher, liberated woman and amateur sleuth, on a hunt for a ruthless killer....One of the most exciting and dangerous of the adventures into which Phryne's fabulous and risky lifestyle have led her.--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br>Australian author Greenwood's fine Phryne Fisher mystery combines suspense and humor with a taut race to unmask a master assassin before he can strike again. The Joker's identity will surprise many readers, but as usual for this long-running series (<i>Cocaine Blues</i>, etc.), the major pleasures come from Greenwood's wry voice and the larger-than-life Fisher.--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>The Troubadours</em> 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 <em>Cocaine Blues</em> 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.</p>
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