Urn Burial
'Meet Phryne Fisher, private investigator extraordinaire...chic, suave, intelligent and attractive' Super-sleuth Phryne Fisher is sojourning at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Gippsland mountain country. But she soon discovers that her host is receiving death threats, someone is...
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'Meet Phryne Fisher, private investigator extraordinaire...chic, suave, intelligent and attractive'
Super-sleuth Phryne Fisher is sojourning at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Gippsland mountain country. But she soon discovers that her host is receiving death threats, someone is setting lethal traps and the parlourmaid has been strangled to death. It seems Phryne is up to her neck in danger.
How does this connect with a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman and an angry outcast heir? Just who is responsible for the mysterious funerary urns which keep appearing around the house? And how can she make time for the luscious Lin Chung?
Phryne's search draws her deep into the darkest dungeons of the house and of the limestone Buchan caves. Who knows what she will unearth this time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140256260 (0140256261)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Series: Phryne Fisher (#8)
More about Miss Fisher's relationship with Lin Chung, and a delightful minor character whose name is Miss Mary Mead and there's a minor clue about her character in the name, and when the truth came out about her I had to smile at the aptness of it all.Murder of a maid and threatening letters and lot...
A wholly enjoyable murder mystery, written as a deliberate pastiche in the classic "golden age" style, whilst simulataneously subverting the rules (for instance, there is certainly a Chinaman involved in the story. Two, in fact.)I sometimes find it difficult to like Phryne Fisher in these novels, a...
Although this is obviously Greenwood's take on a classic "country house" mystery (including a "Miss Mary Mead" for us Christie fans *g*) and as always I really enjoyed it, the plot felt a bit overly complicated.
This one was full of surprise couples and twists. I'm sure some readers kinda went, whoa, I didn't expect that. Me, I was surprised somewhat, Greenwood had been going that direction for a while now. This is a marketed as a cozy type of mystery so she might have lost a few readers like Suzanne Brockm...
#8. Urn Burial (1996). [6 hrs 32 mins] Blurb - The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful country surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation ...
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