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by Kerry Greenwood (Author)
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
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 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.
