Away With the Fairies (Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries)

The sassy Phryne Fisher sets the seamy side of Sydney alight in her tenth adventure. Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney sojourn - a few days at the Test cricket, a little sightseeing and the Artist's Ball with an up-and-coming young modernist. But these plans begin to go awry when Phryne's maid discovers her thoroughly respectable sister has left her family for the murky nightlife of the Cross. And Phryne is definitely not the woman to say 'no' when two delightful young men come to her on bended knees, begging for her help in finding their friend innocent of theft. Phryne's plans for a simple day or two of pleasure are postponed for good. It all sounds simple enough as Phryne sets investigations into motion, but when greed and fear are the motivating factors, people become ruthless and Phryne finds herself enmeshed in blackmail, secrets, lies and the dangerous influences of deep magic. 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 Magazne Publishing First Hand, Her Personal Life Is Thrown Into Chaos. Impatient For Her Lover Lin Chung's Imminet Return From A Silk-buing Expedition To China, She Instead Recieves An Unusal Summons From Lin Chung's Family Followed By A Series Of Mysterious Assults And Warnings. -- Back Cover. Kerry Greenwood. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 275-276). Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney sojourn - a few days at the Test cricket, a little sigtseeing and the Artist's Ball with an up-and-coming young modernist. But these palans begin to go awry when Phryne's maid discovers her thoroughly respectable sister has left her family for the murky noghtlife of the Cross. And Pryne is definitely not the woman to say no when two delightful young men come to her on bended knees, begging for help in finding their friend innocent of theft. -- back cover In investigating the poisoning of a young man in bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne is plunged into a world ofJewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams, Phryne picks her way through the mystery with the help from the old faithfuls - Bert, Cec, Dot and Detective Inspector 'Call Me Jack' Robinson. -- back cover A famous author and illustrator has died in mysterious circumstances. Phryne Fisher has been asked to investigate and gets a job at the magazine that employed the victim. As the investigation proceeds, Phryne finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions and, in the meantime, has to deal with her chaotic personal life Phryne Fisher has plans for her Sydney trip: a few days at the Test cricket, dinner with the Vice Chancellor at the University, a little sightseeing and the Artist's Ball. But her plans go awry and Phryne quickly finds herself enmeshed in blackmail, secrets, lies and black magic. Phryne Fisher investigates a strange death in a bookshop at the Eastern Market and a women falsely accused. She is plunged into a world of alchemy, poison and chicken soup and manages to find the time to delve into some dalliance with the beautiful Simon.