Cocaine Blues
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4.1 • 29 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The growing American audience for Phryne Fisher, Australian author Greenwood's independent 1920s female sleuth, will be delighted that her diverting first mystery is finally available in the U.S. Fisher's off-the-cuff solving of a high society jewel theft leads her to her first professional engagement when a witness to her brilliance asks her to investigate a possible poisoning-in-progress. The detective's admirable willingness to intervene to help those in distress involves her in a variety of other puzzles, including identifying the King of Snow, who has taken over the Melbourne drug trade. Many of the members of Fisher's entourage familiar from later novels make their debuts as well.
