Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things - dancing to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-colored georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable Phryne - especially on a dance floor with so many delectable partners. Nothing but death, that is.
The dance competition is trailing into its last hours when suddenly a figure slumps to the ground. Phryne, conscious of how narrowly the weapon missed her own bare shoulder, back, and dress, investigates.
Phryne follows the deadly trail into the dark smoky jazz clubs of Fitzroy, into the arms of eloquent strangers, and finally into the sky, as she uncovers a complicated family tragedy from the Great War and the damaged men who came back from ANZAC cove.
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Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than 40 novels and six non-fiction books. Among her many honors, Ms. Greenwood has received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Australia. When she is not writing she is an advocate in Magistrates' Courts for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard.
The irrepressible Phryne Fisher is at it again. Forty-seven hours into a dance marathon, Phryne and pal Charlie witness a murder. When Charlie then disappears, his distraught mother hires Phryne to find him-and her other son, Victor, a shell-shocked ex-soldier. Stephanie Daniel is perfect as the Jazz Age detective, providing plenty of fast-paced action and sly wisecracks. Taking a turn as a blind blues singer, however, Daniel is less convincing. Even so, as Phryne flies her Gypsy Moth across the Australian Alps; frolics in the Outback with a hermit, his dog, and a wombat; and solves the murder, Daniel is sensational. A brief interview with Kerry Greenwood offers fascinating insights into the inspirations for some of her characters. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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