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1472129598

Murder on a midsummer's night.

Author: Greenwood, Kerry.

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Constable, 2019.

ISBN: 9781472129598 (pbk.) : 8.99

Notes:

Originally published: Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2008.

The year is 1929, and Melbourne is in the grip of an exhausting heatwave. But for elegant and irrepressible private investigator Phryne Fisher, the temperature is the least of her worries. She finds herself simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide of a man on St Kilda beach, and trying to find a lost child. The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her seventeenth mystery.Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of a man on St Kilda beach and trying to find a lost, illegimate child who could be heir to a wealthy old woman's fortune, Phryne needs all her wits about her, particularly when she has to tangle with a group of thoroughly unpleasant Bright Young Things.But Phryne Fisher is a force of nature, and takes in her elegant stride what might make others quail, including terrifying

Series title: Phryne Fisher ; 17