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Murder on the Ballarat train : a Phryne Fisher mystery

Greenwood, Kerry. (Author).

Summary: When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives. As the passengers sleep, they are poisoned with chloroform. Phryne is left to piece together the clues after this restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors of white slavery and black magic, and the body of an old woman missing her emerald rings. Then there is the rowing team and the choristers, all deliciously engaging young men. At first they seem like a pleasant diversion ...

Record details

  • ISBN: 1780339550
  • ISBN: 1283454491
  • ISBN: 1459642147
  • ISBN: 1742696279
  • ISBN: 1615953566
  • ISBN: 6613454494
  • ISBN: 1742379591
  • ISBN: 1590582489
  • ISBN: 1590584058
  • ISBN: 1615953566
  • ISBN: 9781615953561
  • ISBN: 9781464206221
  • ISBN: 1464206228
  • ISBN: 1590582411
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (151 pages)
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  • Edition: 1st U.S. trade pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: Scottsdale, Ariz. : Poisoned Pen Press, 2007, ©1991.

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General Note:
Originally published in Australia in 1991.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Fisher, Phryne (Fictitious character) Fiction
Women detectives Australia Melbourne (Vic.) Fiction
Melbourne (Vic.) Fiction
Fisher, Phryne (Fictitious character)
Women detectives
Victoria Melbourne
Genre: Fiction.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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 three series, 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 twenty 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.

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 three series, 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 twenty 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.

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