by Kerry Greenwood
Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms, and all over her silk shirt.Enraged by the loss of t...
bookshelves: published-1992, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, fraudio, series, austria, mystery-thriller, catholic, period-piece, autumn-2012, incest-agameforallthefamily, tbr-busting-2012, cosy Read from September 12 to 13, 2012 #4. Death at Victoria Dock (1992). [5 hrs 30 mins]blurb - Driving...
#4. Death at Victoria Dock (1992). [5 hrs 30 mins]blurb - Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her ...
This 4th novel in the Phrynee Fisher series deals with anarchists, a dysfunctional family (and boy, it is dysfunctional). The girls are home from a school break and get in the action, kinda. Dot meets her man and Phrynee meets a wonderful man who of course leaves at the end. A good, strong mystery, ...
I am really falling in love with Phryne. This was another book I saw as part if the ABC (Australia) television production before reading it. The differences were significant, but not enough to destroy the enjoyment of either the book or the episode.Phryne is a great, strong character with equally ...
The fabulous Phryne Fisher tangles with anarchists and mystics.
This episode opens more violently, with Phryne shot at by person unknown as she drives home. Pursuing them, she finds a lovely "young man" (age 17) dying from rather graphically-described wounds. Investigating, she becomes involved with a criminal plot by anarchists and acquires, predictably, a new ...
Rating: 2.5* of fiveDeath at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood is the fourth installment in the Phryne Fisher series.I am seriously irked. This Greenwood moll has something against teenaged girls, and puts them repeatedly in the most heinous jeopardy imaginable and then when they're extricated all is...
Fun, although not as good as the first three. I found the mystery less compelling than in the other books. But in terms of characters, Greenwood makes everyone just delightful, even those that show up for a few minutes. I want so badly to live like Phryne Fisher!
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