By: Kerry Greenwood
Genre: Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Historical
Poisoned Pen Press
July 1, 2007
On Sale: July 15, 2007
Featuring: Phryne Fisher
212 pages
ISBN: 1590582357
EAN: 9781590582350
Kindle: B006WOEVIA
Hardcover / e-Book
Book Summary
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine.
And then a man from her past arrives at the door.
It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrell's Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in Mrs. Witherspoon's irreproachable boarding house and Miss Parkes, an ex- performer, is charged with his murder.
Phryne must go undercover deeper than ever to solve the circus' malaise. She must abandon her name, her title, her protection, her comfort-even her clothes. She must fall off a horse twice a day until she can stay on. She must sleep in a girl's tent and dine on mutton stew. And she must find some allies.
Meanwhile, in Melbourne, the young and fresh- faced policeman Tommy Harris has to solve his own mysteries with the help of the foul-spoken harridan Lizard Elsie, or Miss Parkes will certainly hang. Can Phyrne uncover the truth without losing her life?