Cocaine Blues
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so...
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It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B0041CSHP8
Publish date: 2010-08-30
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Minutes: 350
Edition language: English
Series: Phryne Fisher (#1)
Phryne Fisher is bored by the London society. When she gets a proposition to do some amateur sleuthing in Australia, she immediately grabs the opportunity and boards a ship to Melbourne. And there she starts her amateur sleuthing, which is fine by me. It´s your typical run-of-the-mill amateur sleu...
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I have loved the television series based on this books for a long while, so eagerly picked this first book to read for the Twelves Tasks of the Festive Season. The story starts off with Phryne Fisher being at her family's home in England and bored. The lights go off, and a necklace is missing, in me...