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www.phrynefisher.com

2013 Interview with Kerry
1998 Interview with Kerry
Kerry answers the Usual Questions (interview project)

More by Kerry Greenwood:

Corinna Chapman series

Other Titles by Kerry



Crime Series:

Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles

Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr (Burglar)

Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder

Lilian Jackson Braun's Qwilleran and Koko (Cat Who)

Lee Child's Jack Reacher

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum

Janet Evanovich's Alex Barnaby

Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg's O'Hare/Fox series

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone

Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher

Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman

Wendy Hornsby's Maggie MacGowen

Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson (Blood)

Val McDermid's Kate Brannigan

Shane Maloney's Murray Whelan

Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski

J D Robb's Eve Dallas and Roarke

Dorothy Sayers'Lord Peter Wimsey

Michael W. Sherer's Blake Sanders

Zoe Sharp's Charlie Fox

John Sandford's Lucas Davenport

John Sandford's Virgil Flowers

John Sandford's Kidd & LuEllen


Fantasy/Science Fiction series:

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Robots series

Mary Janice Davidson's Undead series

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series

Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer series

Anne McCaffrey's Brain Ships series

Anne McCaffrey's Talents (psychic, rowan, tower) series

Anne McCaffrey's Petaybee series

Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series

Anne McCaffrey's Acorna series

George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones and more

Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson (Blood Lines)

Tanya Huff's Confederation

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Spider Robinson's Callahan and Stardance series

Roger Zelazny's Amber Series



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Murray Whelan amateur investigator series by Shane Maloney reading order and synopsis

Stephanie Plum Bombshell Bounty Hunter series by Janet Evanovich reading order and synopsis

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone private investigator series page for reading order and synopsis; 160x480

See also: Kerry Greenwood's Corinna and Daniel Melbourne-based series page; 160x480

See also:  Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson Paranormal Investigator series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Val McDermid's Kate Brannigan PI series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Festivale's Pictorial Guide to Melbourne and Victoria; 160x480

Lilian Jackson Braun's The  Cat Who (Qwilleran) series reading order and synopsis

J D Robb (Nora Roberts) Eve Dallas (In Death) series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

John Sandford's Lucas Davenport series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher Jazz Age Detective

The Phryne Fisher series is set in Jazz Age Melbourne. Phryne is a rich, intelligent, daring, beautiful young woman with a hungry past.

Her pals include a couple of borderline-criminal red taxi drivers, an aviatrix, a doctor working at the Queen Victoria hospital (one of the few places that would accept a female doctor), her maid Dot, and a series of pretty (male human) pets. As the series progresses she acquires a couple of foster daughters who spend most of their time at school.

The quick-witted and glamorous Phryne is modelled on Kerry's own sister, at least in her appearance. Her adventures are fast-paced, bright, and take place in early twentieth century Melbourne and Paris.

"If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says."

See also: For a fannish treat, we visited the Hotel Windsor, Phryne's initial home for afternoon tea.


Summary:

Cocaine Blues (1989)

Flying Too High (1990)

Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)

Death at Victoria Dock

The Green Mill Murder (1993)

Blood and Circuses (1994)

Ruddy Gore (1995)

Urn Burial

Raisins and Almonds (1997)

Death Before Wicket

Away with the Fairies

Murder in Montparnasse

Murder in Montparnasse (2002)

The Castlemaine Murders

The Castlemaine Murders (2003)

Queen of the Flowers

Queen of the Flowers (2004)

Death by Water

Death by Water (2008)

Murder in the Dark

Murder on a Midsummer Night

Dead Man's Chest

Unnatural Habits

Murder and Mendelsshon

A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury


book cover, Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Cocaine Blues (1989) , Kerry Greenwood

Cocaine Blues (1989)

Phryne Fisher, ennui of glittering upper crust life embarks on a trip to her native Australia to solve a mystery. Set in Melbourne between the wars. Book 1 of the series in which we meet Phyrne and Dot and Bert and Cec and Dr Macmillan.

In the U.S. published as Death by Misadventure : A Roaring Twenties Mystery. Synopsis from JA: It is 1928 when the Honourable Phryne Fisher sails into Melbourne, Australia and sets up as a female detective. She is soon involved in trouble with drugs, Turkish baths and the Women's hospital.

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Book cover, Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood
Flying Too High (1990), Kerry Greenwood

Flying Too High (1990)

The second Phyrne Fisher adventure begins with the kidnapping of little Candida Alice Maldon.

A child is kidnapped and the Chairman of a flying school at Essendon airport is murdered. The Hon. Phryne Fisher indulges her passion for flying aircraft and becomes involved in the cases.
- James Allen

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Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991), Kerry Greenwood

Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)

In this, the third Phryne adventure, she travels by train to Ballarat only to be chloroformed. And what is the story behind young Jane?

Phyrne's investigations feature the usual 'pets' and a party beside the Yarra River in a historic boat house.

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book cover, Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood
Death at Victoria Dock, Kerry Greenwood

Death at Victoria Dock

Phryne doesn't need to chase mysteries, this one comes to her in the form of a bullet through the windscreen of her beloved Hispano-Suiza and the death of a lovely young man. Her adventure leads her to Trotskyites, spiritualists and a Slavic ex-anarchist, all with a bit of robbery and revolutionary terrorism thrown in to keep her busy.

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The Green Mill Murder (1993), Kerry Greenwood

The Green Mill Murder (1993)

The fifth Phyrne adventure begins in the middle of a dance marathon at the Green Mill. Murder, blackmail, and jazz musicians make a heady mixture.

Whilst dancing in a Marathon at the Green Mill Dance Hall, The Hon. Phryne Fisher's partner is stabbed from behind and killed. She investigates a night time world of Jazz Clubs and Dance Halls. - James Allen

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Blood and Circuses (1994), Kerry Greenwood

Blood and Circuses (1994)

Phryne's investigation leads her to a career as a trick horse-rider.

It is October 1928. Nasty events are happening at Farrells Circus. The Hon. Phryne Fisher is called upon to investigate, so she joins the circus. She becomes a trick horse rider to see things from the inside, as the circus leaves Melbourne and goes west to Rockbank. - James Allen

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Ruddy Gore (1995), Kerry Greenwood

Ruddy Gore (1995)

There has been a murder at His Majesty's theatre; somehow the local Chinese community of Little Bourke Street is involved. Phryne Fisher is going to see a Gilbert and Sullivan performance when she gets caught up in the mystery.

Dressed in a silver dress like a goddess, Phryne meets Lin Chung and his all-powerful grandmother.

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Urn Burial, Kerry Greenwood

Urn Burial

At Cave House, a Gothic Mansion in the Gippsland Mountain country near Buchan Caves, various people come to stay for the weekend. The Hon. Phryne Fisher is among them. Suddenly gun shots ring out and someone is murdered.

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Raisins and Almonds (1997), Kerry Greenwood

Raisins and Almonds (1997)

Phryne discovers the alternative world of Jewish Melbourne when she starts investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop.

From a bookshop in the Eastern Market of Melbourne, a mysterious poisoning takes Phryne Fisher to the Jewish community of Carlton, in her search for clues. - James Allen

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book cover, Death Before Wicket, Kerry Greenwood
Death Before Wicket, Kerry Greenwood

Death Before Wicket

Set in Sydney, during the 1928 Test match between England and Australia. Phryne Fisher has traveled up to watch the cricket, but important ancient Egyptian artifacts have been stolen from a safe at Sydney University. Phryne investigates.

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Away with the Fairies, Kerry Greenwood

Away with the Fairies

By this time, the author takes it for granted that you know all the regular characters - the rich, beautiful and talented private eye, Phryne, her maid and assistant, Dot, her two servants, Mr and Mrs Butler, the police inspector, Jack Robinson and Phryne's Chinese boyfriend, Lin Chung.

Reviewed by Sue B

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Book cover, Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood
Murder in Montparnasse, Kerry Greenwood

Murder in Montparnasse (2002)

Phryne's past in post-war Paris reaches into her idyllic Melbourne existence, while Lin Chung's approaching nuptials threatens to break up her happy home.

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The Castlemaine Murders, Kerry Greenwood

The Castlemaine Murders (2003)

Phryne and the incomparable Lin Chung are each faced with mysteries and the challenge of solving murders that happened in bygone ages.

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book cover, Queen of the Flowers, by Kerry Greenwood
Queen of the Flowers, Kerry Greenwood

Queen of the Flowers (2004)

Phryne is about to become 1928's Queen of the Flowers, but of course, nothing is Phryne's life is without murder and mayhem.

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book cover Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood
Death by Water , Kerry Greenwood

Death by Water (2008)

A spate of burglaries has P & O hiring Phryne to investigate. She takes the S.S. Hinemoa to New Zealand with the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani as bait.

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Murder in the Dark , Kerry Greenwood

Murder in the Dark

Phryne is invited to the Last Best Party of 1928, given by golden twins from Paris and filled with acolytes, ex-grammar school boys, stockmen and stockwomen and sundry others on a Werribee estate.

Phryne nearly misses it, but after she gets an attempt on her life for christmas, she is determined to dig out the mystery. There are kidnapped children, hash fudge parties, a hunt, polo, jazz, and murderous threats. All part of the fun, really.

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Murder on a Midsummer Night, Kerry Greenwood

Murder on a Midsummer Night

Phryne has two cases on the go. First, her socialist sister brings a grieving mother who doesn't believe her son drowned himself in the seas. Second, an archbishop recommends her to discreetly search for a possible heir (born out of marriage) to a catholic family's fortune. Meanwhile the relentless heat of the Australian summer makes Phryne wonder if an English winter wasn't so bad after all.

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Dead Man's Chest , Kerry Greenwood

Dead Man's Chest

The Hon. Phryne Fisher and family leave for Queenscliff at Phryne's usual high speed. They arrive to find the house they've been offered, deserted, devoid of servants and food -- even the salt and pepper cellars have been emptied. Phyrne has promised her family (including the faithful Dot) a mystery-free holiday, and they arrive to find one. Queenscliff has ocean views, a population of surrealists, holidaying tradespeople and struggling fisherfolk, plus the phantom snipper who is slicing the braids right of young girl's heads.

Ruth comes into her own taking charge of the kitchen with help from a couple of friendly locals, including Tinker, the grubby youth who becomes Phryne's investigative assistant. Dot's fiance arrives to do a spot of undercover work as a freshly-minted Detective Sergeant looking into rum smuggling. And according to local legends, and a very small film-making team, there's treasure somewhere about.

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Unnatural Habits , Kerry Greenwood

Unnatural Habits

Home in Melbourne, Phyrne and Dr MacMillan are walking to the Adventuress Club when they come upon a woman being threatened by three toughs. Phryne whistles up a group of Chinese, her unofficial bodyguard set by the incomparable Lin Chung to protect his Jade Lady. The woman, a reporter, is investigating the disappearance of three heavily pregnant women who the police reckon probably joined the local brothels! When the reporter herself is kidnapped, Phryne's favourite policeman Jack Robinson asks Phryne to help untangle the mess. Meanwhile Tinker, Phyrne's new apprentice detective, finds a way to make a home in her bijou residence.

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Murder and Mendelsshon, Kerry Greenwood

Murder and Mendelsshon

To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand.

An orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher's assistance to enter a world in which he is at sea. Hugh Tregennis, not much liked by anyone, has been murdered in a most flamboyant mode by a killer with a point to prove. But how many killers is Phryne really stalking? (source: Allen & Unwin)

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A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury, Kerry Greenwood

A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury

A collection of Phryne short stories.

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