Introducing Phryne Fisher (Books 1-3) ~ Paperback ~ Kerry Greenwood

Meet Phryne Fisher, the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth, in her first three adventures bound together in one great value volume. This is the perfect way to introduce your friends to your favourite and most stylish sleuth–or to catch up on some of Miss Fisher's earlier career. Our unflappable, unconventional and uninhibited heroine, The Honorable Phryne Fisher, leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. In her first three adventures, she encounters communism, cocaine, kidnappers, and murderers. Phryne handles everything–danger, excitement and love–with her inimitable panache and flair, and still finds a little time for discreet dalliances and delicious diversions. This brilliant omnibus volume presents “Cocaine Blues, Flying Too High "and "Murder on the Ballarat Train.” Praise for Phryne Fisher ‘Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths with customary panache … [she is] irresistibly charming’ – The Age ‘Phryne Fisher is gutsy and adventurous, and endowed with plenty of grey matter.’ – West Australian ‘Independent, wealthy, spirited and possessed of an uninhibited style that makes everyone move out of her way and stand gawking for a full five minutes after she walks by – Phryne Fisher is a woman who gets what she wants and has the good sense to enjoy every minute of it!’ – Geelong Times ‘Fisher is a sexy, sassy and singularly modish character. Her 1920s Melbourne is racy, liberal and a city where crime occurs on its shadowy, largely unlit streets.’ – Canberra Times ‘The presence of the inimitable Phryne Fisher makes this mystery a delightful, glamorous romp of a novel – a literary glass of champagne with a hint of debauchery.’ – Armidale Express ‘Impressive as she may be, Phryne Fisher, her activities and her world are never cloying thanks to Greenwood's witty, slightly tongue-in-cheek prose. As usual, it's a delightfully frothy, indulgent escape with an underlying bite.’ – Otago Daily Times ‘Greenwood's stren­gth lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are great.’ – Vogue ‘If you have not yet discovered this Melbourne author and her wonderful books featuring Phryne Fisher, I urge you to do so now… In a word: delightful’ – Herald Sun ‘The astonishing thing is not that Phryne is so gloriously fleshed out with her lulu bob and taste for white peaches and green chartreuse, but that I had not already made her acquaintance.’ – Bendigo Advertiser With Phryne Fisher, the indefatigable Greenwood has invented the character-you-fall-in-love-with genre.' The Australian Author Biography Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, including “The Troubadours” with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with “Cocaine Blues” which was a great success. Kerry has written sixteen books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. In 2003 Kerry Won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.