Synopses & Reviews
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives. As the passengers sleep, they are poisoned with chloroform. Phryne is left to piece together the clues after this restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors of white slavery and black magic, and the body of an old woman missing her emerald rings. Then there is the rowing team and the choristers, all deliciously engaging young men. At first they seem like a pleasant diversion....
Review
""On the train to Ballarat, 1920s Australian feminist flapper and private investigator Phryne Fisher (Flying Too High) wakes up to the smell of chloroform. She saves all her fellow passengers, except an old, cantankerous woman whose body is found at the side of the train tracks. While investigating the murder for the woman's daughter, Phryne also takes in an amnesiac waif on the train who has no knowledge of why she is traveling in the opposite direction of her ticket. Compared with other mysteries, Greenwood's stories are brief, but she holds her own, writing
well-thought-out plots starring the intelligent, sexy, liberated, and wealthy Phryne. Greenwood lives in Melbourne, Australia."" --Library Journal
Synopsis
Heading for Ballarat aboard a luxury train, glamorous amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher is forced to come to the aid of her fellow passengers when they are poisoned with chloroform as they sleep, finding herself involved with the members of a rowing team, a young girl who can remember nothing, rumors of white slavery and black magic, a corpse, and missing emeralds.
Synopsis
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives.
About the Author
Kerry Greenwood is the author of 38 novels and six non-fiction books. Among her many honors, Greenwood has received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Australia. Other mysteries in the Phryne Fisher series available from Poisoned Pen Press are Murder in Montparnasse, Cocaine Blues, Away with the Fairies, Ruddy Gore, and Urn Burial. Greenwood is also the author of several books for young adults and the Delphic Women series.