This Phyrne Fisher mystery, 11th in the series, has Phryne's attention split two ways: First, she's asked by Detective Inspector Jack Robinson to help with a case in which Miss Lavender, a prolific artist of fairy drawings as well as the main advice columnist for a women's magazine, is found dead in her apartment. There is a wide range of suspects: those who live near her, those she worked with, and those she may have counseled in her advice column. The other situation which draws Phryne's attention is that her Chinese lover, Lin Chung, has been sent to China on a silk-buying trip for his grandmother's business in Australia. The year is 1928 and the seas in which he is sailing are rife with pirates who capture vessels and hold persons for ransom. That is, if they don't throw them overboard to the sharks. Phryne hasn't heard from Lin Chung for too long and she's quite concerned, to put it mildly. To make it worse, she keeps finding herself attacked by persons of Chinese ancestry while she uncovers details pertinent to both mysteries. Some slices of this book show the darkest side of Phryne I've ever seen. Quite compelling.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Away With the Fairies
Away With the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood (©2001, US edition 2005) 241 pages
This Phyrne Fisher mystery, 11th in the series, has Phryne's attention split two ways: First, she's asked by Detective Inspector Jack Robinson to help with a case in which Miss Lavender, a prolific artist of fairy drawings as well as the main advice columnist for a women's magazine, is found dead in her apartment. There is a wide range of suspects: those who live near her, those she worked with, and those she may have counseled in her advice column. The other situation which draws Phryne's attention is that her Chinese lover, Lin Chung, has been sent to China on a silk-buying trip for his grandmother's business in Australia. The year is 1928 and the seas in which he is sailing are rife with pirates who capture vessels and hold persons for ransom. That is, if they don't throw them overboard to the sharks. Phryne hasn't heard from Lin Chung for too long and she's quite concerned, to put it mildly. To make it worse, she keeps finding herself attacked by persons of Chinese ancestry while she uncovers details pertinent to both mysteries. Some slices of this book show the darkest side of Phryne I've ever seen. Quite compelling.
This Phyrne Fisher mystery, 11th in the series, has Phryne's attention split two ways: First, she's asked by Detective Inspector Jack Robinson to help with a case in which Miss Lavender, a prolific artist of fairy drawings as well as the main advice columnist for a women's magazine, is found dead in her apartment. There is a wide range of suspects: those who live near her, those she worked with, and those she may have counseled in her advice column. The other situation which draws Phryne's attention is that her Chinese lover, Lin Chung, has been sent to China on a silk-buying trip for his grandmother's business in Australia. The year is 1928 and the seas in which he is sailing are rife with pirates who capture vessels and hold persons for ransom. That is, if they don't throw them overboard to the sharks. Phryne hasn't heard from Lin Chung for too long and she's quite concerned, to put it mildly. To make it worse, she keeps finding herself attacked by persons of Chinese ancestry while she uncovers details pertinent to both mysteries. Some slices of this book show the darkest side of Phryne I've ever seen. Quite compelling.
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