Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery

Name: Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Rating: 3.575 (60 reviews)
Author: Kerry Greenwood
ISBN: 9781590583852

by Kerry Greenwood

3.6

(60 ratings)

Phryne Fisher #1175 pages15 editions1989Poisoned Pen PressISBN 9781590583852

Fiction History Mystery Romance

About this book

Adventure, glamour, and mystery await in Cocaine Blues, a female detective novel set in dazzling 1920s Melbourne. When the Honourable Phryne Fisher tires of traipsing through London's dull elite society, she sets her sights on solving crime in Australia--and steps straight into a city simmering with secrets. No sooner has Phryne checked into the elegant Windsor Hotel than she's swept into a whirlwind of intrigue: poisoned wives, a cocaine smuggling operation, police corruption, and secret political plots. Phryne's daring investigation leads her from high society scandals to erotic encounters with the alluring Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse. As tension rises like steam, Phryne races to protect herself and save other young women--before it's too late. Cocaine Blues is the book that launched the bestselling, award-winning Phryne Fisher Mysteries--now a global phenomenon and the inspiration behind the hit Netflix series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. "Phryne can not get enough of adventure and the reader can not get enough of Phryne."--Deadly Pleasures

Publication Details

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 1989
Pages: 175
ISBN: 9781590583852
Language: en
Editions: 15

About Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has a degree 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. In 1996 she published a book of essays on female murderers called Things She Loves: Why women Kill. 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 thirteen 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. Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume-maker, cook and is currently a solicitor. When she is not writing, she works as a locum solicitor for the Victorian Legal Aid. She is also the unpaid curator of seven thousand books, three cats (Attila, Belladonna and Ashe) and a computer called Apple (which squeaks). She embroiders very well but cannot knit. She has flown planes and leapt out of them (with a parachute) in an attempt to cure her fear of heights (she is now terrified of jumping out of planes but can climb ladders without fear). She can detect second-hand bookshops from blocks away and is often found within them. For fun Kerry reads science fiction/fantasy and detective stories. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered wizard. When she is not doing any of the above she stares blankly out of the window.