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Kerry Greenwood


Born
in Footscray, Victoria, Australia
June 17, 1954

Died
March 26, 2025

Website

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Kerry Isabelle Greenwood was an Australian author and lawyer. She wrote many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She wrote mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger. ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 196,735 ratings · 17,342 reviews · 86 distinct works • Similar authors
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fishe...
3.84 avg rating — 29,156 ratings — published 1989 — 60 editions
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Flying Too High (Phryne Fis...
3.89 avg rating — 14,784 ratings — published 1990 — 51 editions
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Murder on the Ballarat Trai...
3.98 avg rating — 12,671 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Death at Victoria Dock (Phr...
3.95 avg rating — 10,201 ratings — published 1992 — 44 editions
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The Green Mill Murder (Phry...
3.97 avg rating — 9,103 ratings — published 1993 — 38 editions
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Blood and Circuses (Phryne ...
3.84 avg rating — 7,390 ratings — published 1994 — 43 editions
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Ruddy Gore (Phryne Fisher, #7)
3.84 avg rating — 6,924 ratings — published 1995 — 36 editions
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Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)
3.90 avg rating — 6,588 ratings — published 1996 — 33 editions
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Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fi...
4.13 avg rating — 6,028 ratings — published 2012 — 39 editions
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Murder in Montparnasse (Phr...
4.14 avg rating — 5,886 ratings — published 2002 — 40 editions
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“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
― Kerry Greenwood
tags: muse, writing
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“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers
tags: humor
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“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers
tags: husbands, sailors
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