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"Danger, excitement and love - this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing adventure. Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the second Phryne Fisher mystery, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 2
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Corinna Chapman, the likable Australian baker-sleuth, returns for her second adventure (after Earthly Delights, 2007). Someone has been sabotaging the confections at a friend?s chocolate shop, and if there?s one thing Corinna can?t stand, it?s seeing a friend being victimized. Compicating matters is the recent return of Daniel, her lover, still recovering from an encounter with a self-styled ?messiah? who just might be messed up in the chocolate-shop...
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"The fourth Ragtime Mystery is filled with warmth and wonder and interesting music trivia, buoyed by the relationship between the two sleuths, which may well echo that between the late Larry Karp and his son, who finished this final installment after his death." -Kirkus Reviews
It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott...
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Poisoned Pen Press
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©2021
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"When a mysterious invitation arrives for the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But the pair barely...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 3
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Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in her third delicious mystery set in present-day Melbourne.
If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well--so when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed...
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Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and members of her household are in danger from anarchists, they manage to foil a bank robbery while also solving the case of a missing young girl.
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to a rustic estate John has long owned in Greece, not far from where he grew up. But exile proves no escape from mystery and mayhem. The residents of nearby Megara make it plain John and his family are unwelcome intruders. His overseer proves corrupt. What of the other staff-and his neighbors?
Before long, John finds himself accused of blasphemy and murder. Now...
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