Death Before Wicket
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"Phryne's fans get everything they could possibly want from this installment in the long-running and ever more popular series: a fast-talking, tough heroine; an engaging cast of supporting players; a couple of really nifty mysteries; and plenty of fun." —Booklist
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime, and she's not afraid to use it.
When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the neglectful care of a resentful husband. What has become of Joan, who would never leave her babies? Surely, she hasn't run away with a lover, as gossip suggests?
Then while Phryne is visiting the university, the very pretty Joss and Clarence ask her to find out who has broken into the Dean's safe and stolen a number of things, including the Dean's wife's garnets and an irreplaceable illuminated book called the Hours of Juana the Mad. An innocent student has been blamed.
So Phryne girds up her loins, loads her pearl-handled .32 Beretta, and sallies forth to find mayhem, murder, black magic, and perhaps a really good cocktail before more crime erupts in Sydney.
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Kerry Greenwood. (2011). Death Before Wicket. Sourcebooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kerry Greenwood. 2011. Death Before Wicket. Sourcebooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kerry Greenwood, Death Before Wicket. Sourcebooks, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kerry Greenwood. Death Before Wicket. Sourcebooks, 2011.
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Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime, and she's not afraid to use it.
When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the neglectful care of a resentful husband. What has become of Joan, who would never leave her babies? Surely, she hasn't run away with a lover, as gossip suggests?
Then while Phryne is visiting the university, the very pretty Joss and Clarence ask her to find out who has broken into the Dean's safe and stolen a number of things, including the Dean's wife's garnets and an irreplaceable illuminated book called the Hours of Juana the Mad. An innocent student has been blamed.
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In one of Greenwood's stronger entries in her acclaimed series set in 1920s Australia (Ruddy Gore
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In the tenth Phryne Fisher novel, set in 1928 Australia, the free-thinking flapper is on holiday in Sydney. She's got her vacation all planned out?cricket matches, dinner with the in-crowd, lots of dining and dancing?but solving yet yet another mystery is not on the agenda. But that's before Phryne's maid's sister goes missing, and a university student is accused of breaking into the dean's safe. Soon enough, Phryne's dancing shoes are back in the suitcase, andshe's up to her neck in murder, intrigue, and derring-do. Phryne's fans get everything they could possibly want from this installment in the long-running and ever more popular series: a fast-talking, tough heroine; an engaging cast of supporting players; a couple of really nifty mysteries; and plenty of fun. Phryne, who defiantly challenges every one of society's notions of a ?woman's place, ? is a riveting series lead, and luckily there are many more of her adventures still to come.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)
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When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the neglectful care of a resentful husband. What has become of Joan, who would never leave her babies? Surely, she hasn't run away with a lover, as gossip suggests?
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