Publication

2006-10-30 - Poisoned Pen Press

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101590583132
  • ISBN-139781590583135
  • Goodreads1339025
  • OCLC Control Number85262678
  • Better World Books9781590583135
and 1 more

Description

Exciting, gorgeous, adventurous and brave. That's Phryne Fisher, returning in her tenth crime mystery novel.Phryne Fisher-dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance.It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.

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Other Editions

  • Away With The Fairies (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)PaperbackPoisoned Pen Press2006-10-30

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