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Allen & Unwin (2002), Edition: Main, 300 pages
Description
Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML: Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue. Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne delves into the investigation that she, too, remembers being in Montparnasse on that very same day. While Phryne is occupied with memories of Montparnasse past and the race to outpace the murderer, she finds troubles of a different kind at home. Her lover, Lin Chung, is about to be married. And the effect this is having on her own usually peaceful household is disastrous..… (more)
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LibraryThing member smik
A Phryne Fisher Mystery read by Julia Davis. At the end of World War 1 in Paris, Bert, Cec and 5 other Australian soldiers witness a murder when a man is pushed under a Paris train. Now, in Australia in 1928, two are very recently dead and Bert and Cec believe they are being targetted. Phryne was
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in Paris in 1918 and remembers the train incident. It also brings back memories of the man she was infatuated with then. Now she learns that he has recently arrived in Melbourne. Show Less
LibraryThing member veracite
Still fairy floss.
I wish Lin Chung was more interesting. I wish Lin Chung was interesting at all. Everyone is about how they allow Phryne to be something. I wish Lin Chung was about more than how Phryne can command the sexual attention of the prettiest man.
That said, detective stories are very
I wish Lin Chung was more interesting. I wish Lin Chung was interesting at all. Everyone is about how they allow Phryne to be something. I wish Lin Chung was about more than how Phryne can command the sexual attention of the prettiest man.
That said, detective stories are very
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moralistic aren't they? Bad people are punished and every good little boy and girl gets a favour. Show Less
LibraryThing member annbury
Magnifique!! This installment of the saga of Phryne Fisher takes us back into our heroine's past, when she was a young and foolish artist's model in Paris. The road back is paved with her current effort to find out why someone is trying to kill the members of a group of Aussie WWI veterans, a group
These are really very entertaining mysteries. Why then do I give the best of them four stars instead of five? Because as a former English major I have a deep (and probably inaccurate) conviction that only Serious Works deserve top marks. Maybe we could have categories like "rating as mystery" -- no, too complex. Anyway, this is, to repeat, a really good mystery.
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that includes Cec and Bert. As usual, the atmospherics are terrific, both the near-desperation of Paris just after the war, and the gaiety of Melbourne in the late 1920's. This go-round, however, is particularly well plotted -- the back and forth between Paris and Melbourne is very well handled. Also, it gives us an unusual look at Phryne's emotional life, and at a situation in which she did not emerge triumphant.These are really very entertaining mysteries. Why then do I give the best of them four stars instead of five? Because as a former English major I have a deep (and probably inaccurate) conviction that only Serious Works deserve top marks. Maybe we could have categories like "rating as mystery" -- no, too complex. Anyway, this is, to repeat, a really good mystery.
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LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
As interesting and fun as most of the other books in the series. The reader gets a lot of sad details about Phrynee's past and we finally meet Lin's wife. Love Camelia so far and the historical Paris World War I research was very well done. Smart solutions all around for the characters and
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LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
As interesting and fun as most of the other books in the series. The reader gets a lot of sad details about Phrynee's past and we finally meet Lin's wife. Love Camelia so far and the historical Paris World War I research was very well done. Smart solutions all around for the characters and
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LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
As interesting and fun as most of the other books in the series. The reader gets a lot of sad details about Phrynee's past and we finally meet Lin's wife. Love Camelia so far and the historical Paris World War I research was very well done. Smart solutions all around for the characters and
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mysteries. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
As interesting and fun as most of the other books in the series. The reader gets a lot of sad details about Phrynee's past and we finally meet Lin's wife. Love Camelia so far and the historical Paris World War I research was very well done. Smart solutions all around for the characters and
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mysteries. Show Less
LibraryThing member jguidry
Another fun installment in the Phryne Fisher series. In this book, you get a deeper look into Phryne's personality and find out a little bit more about how she developed into the woman we're used to reading about. The story did not end the way I expected, but it was still a fun ending.
LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
Phryne has a busy time of it, some of Cec and Bert's friends are dying, her lover is getting married, her butler is threatening to leave, there's a ball to attend, a missing girl and a ghost from the past. Several of these are related and she's juggling these things well.
Entertaining and
Entertaining and
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LibraryThing member DrLed
Synopsis: Two of Bert and Cec's friends have been murdered although the police think these were accidents. Phryne doesn't believe the reports and neither does her police friend. Lin brings his fiance to meet Phryne and the two women like each other. A young girl is kidnapped and Phryne is asked to
Review: This is one of the best books in this series. Each of the story lines could stand on its own and each is very interesting. A really good book.
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find her. Finally, a Parisian man from Phryne's past arrives in Australia and continues to break laws; Phryne must determine how she feels about him and what he has done.Review: This is one of the best books in this series. Each of the story lines could stand on its own and each is very interesting. A really good book.
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LibraryThing member kmajort
Again, the tv episode is just different enough to make this still enjoyable - she's still involved w/Lin, instead of the dreamy Inspector Robinson of the show (he's *not* dreamy in the books, but a great guy).
LibraryThing member TheEllieMo
There’s a slightly different style to this. The 12th Phryne Fisher novel. It’s darker than the previous one, and includes flashbacks to Phryne’s past, along with brief scenes of a woman held captive. I’m now interested to see whether the next in the series develops in this way further.
LibraryThing member notalice
Listening to Bolinda audio read by Stephanie Daniel
LibraryThing member ChazziFrazz
Bert and Cec usually help Phryne on her cases, but this time they are asking for her help. It seems someone is killing off some old friends of theirs. Why, they don’t know.
These friends were part of a group of soldiers who served together in 1918. They all get together once a year and this year
Meanwhile Lin Chung is getting married and he wants Phryne to meet his bride-to-be. This causes some upset within the household, causing Phryne to worry about how her smooth running household will function if things fall apart.
There is also the matter of the missing daughter of a “prominent racing identity,” another term for racehorse owner and breeder. A demanding, mean and rude man who feels that money can buy anyone. He finds that he can’t buy Phryne — she won’t accept any fee for her service in finding the girl. Seems the daughter went with a friend to a dance and disappeared.
Needless to say, Phryne has a lot of irons in the fire to deal with, along with those old memories she has tried to bury.
Again, I enjoyed my visit to Phryne’ world of Australia in the 1920s.
These friends were part of a group of soldiers who served together in 1918. They all get together once a year and this year
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there are 2 missing. As Phryne investigates, she finds that those men passed through Montparnasse at the same time Phryne was there. Memories of that past time come up — good and bad. A little of Phryne’s exotic past is revealed.Meanwhile Lin Chung is getting married and he wants Phryne to meet his bride-to-be. This causes some upset within the household, causing Phryne to worry about how her smooth running household will function if things fall apart.
There is also the matter of the missing daughter of a “prominent racing identity,” another term for racehorse owner and breeder. A demanding, mean and rude man who feels that money can buy anyone. He finds that he can’t buy Phryne — she won’t accept any fee for her service in finding the girl. Seems the daughter went with a friend to a dance and disappeared.
Needless to say, Phryne has a lot of irons in the fire to deal with, along with those old memories she has tried to bury.
Again, I enjoyed my visit to Phryne’ world of Australia in the 1920s.
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LibraryThing member lhaines56
Pretty good but I really had an issue with the whole threesome bit with her Chinese lover etc. Too offcenter for me.
LibraryThing member Vesper1931
1928 and a group of soldiers from the Great War believe they are being targeted by a murdrerer - two are already dead - and they need the help of Phryne to discover why and who. Meanwhile chef Anatole Bertrand asks Phryne to find his disappeared fiancee.
An easily read enjoyable mystery.
a NetGalley
An easily read enjoyable mystery.
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LibraryThing member charlie68
A fine entertaining mystery with Phryne Fisher as a companion.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2002-06-01
Physical description
300 p.; 5.12 inches
ISBN
1865088064 / 9781865088068
Local notes
Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help.