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Phryne Fisher was born in poverty, but is now a wealthy heiress. After she quickly and discretely solves a theft of diamonds at a party, she’s asked by another guest if she might be willing to try to find out what is ailing his daughter. Seems every time Lydia goes to her husband’s home in Australia she takes ill, but as soon as she returns to England she quickly recovers. Bored with the social life in and around her father’s country estate, and equally bored with the “charitable ladies” ch ...more
Phryne Fisher was born in poverty, but is now a wealthy heiress. After she quickly and discretely solves a theft of diamonds at a party, she’s asked by another guest if she might be willing to try to find out what is ailing his daughter. Seems every time Lydia goes to her husband’s home in Australia she takes ill, but as soon as she returns to England she quickly recovers. Bored with the social life in and around her father’s country estate, and equally bored with the “charitable ladies” ch ...more
The first of Phryne's adventures from Australia's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth.
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-grey eyes, diamante garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing ...more
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-grey eyes, diamante garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing ...more
Mar 29, 2010
Trish
rated it
liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
crime-historical
Took me a little while to get into the main character, but I enjoyed it once I did.
I came across Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on Netflix and really liked the show! I didn't think I would like the book that much - since I had already watched the show I knew what was going to happen, which kind of ruins the mystery. I also didn't like the written Phryne as much as liked the TV Phryne...at first. By a third of the way in the book, I was hooked and I enjoyed all the characters. The book was good enough on its own that it wasn't ruined by my watching the TV show first. I'll defin
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Jan 04, 2024
Cora
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
crime,
1st-in-series,
kindle,
series,
mystery,
20th-century,
1920s,
australia,
historical-mystery,
australian-author
This was a fun book that was very different than any others I have read. I like the free-spirited, yet good hearted Phryne and the cast of characters and friends she picks up in her adventures. I hope many of them come back in future books in the series. There were times when I thought the story was going in too many different directions, but in the end most of the trails came together and made sense. While I thought the book was going in a different direction with its resolution of who did it,
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Many cups of tea, changes of clothes, and an amazing amount of action in a shortish book. Good fun.
I’ve actually never watched the show; I thought the book was mediocre all on its own (lack of) merits.
Jul 08, 2013
Colleen Scidmore
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
currently-on-my-computer
Feb 04, 2020
Baroness Ekat
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Aug 01, 2020
Theresa Wright
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Aug 12, 2021
Lauren
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Aug 30, 2023
Alisa Lea
marked it as to-read
