Satisfying.
4 stars
Not the best Phyrne book, but enjoyable.
Paperback, 245 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press.
Away With The Fairies (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
4 stars
(4 reviews)
Exciting, gorgeous, adventurous and brave. That's Phryne Fisher, returning in her tenth crime mystery novel.Phryne Fisher-dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance.It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.
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3 stars
Writing this review, two short days after finishing the novel, I had to wrack my brain to get some details, like the who and the dunnit. I don't think that's a particularly good sign and confines my review to the lower end of the main sequence of book rating.
The murder does happen in "Wee Nooke", a delightful nod to the country cottage in [b:Joy in the Morning|9928818|Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)|P.G. Wodehouse|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1381744220s/9928818.jpg|768371], but that cottage was burned to the ground by an idiotic boy scout within moments of its introduction, and nothing nearly as exciting happens in this one. And while it was exotic to have pirates and an auriculectomy, and to see our protagonist pledge to go to the ends of the earth to rescue her lover, this particular thread disappoints a bit in its pat conclusion.
When I eventually reread this series, I will likely pass …
Writing this review, two short days after finishing the novel, I had to wrack my brain to get some details, like the who and the dunnit. I don't think that's a particularly good sign and confines my review to the lower end of the main sequence of book rating.
The murder does happen in "Wee Nooke", a delightful nod to the country cottage in [b:Joy in the Morning|9928818|Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)|P.G. Wodehouse|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1381744220s/9928818.jpg|768371], but that cottage was burned to the ground by an idiotic boy scout within moments of its introduction, and nothing nearly as exciting happens in this one. And while it was exotic to have pirates and an auriculectomy, and to see our protagonist pledge to go to the ends of the earth to rescue her lover, this particular thread disappoints a bit in its pat conclusion.
When I eventually reread this series, I will likely pass lightly over this entry, but the completist should have a go.
Subjects
- Mystery And Suspense Fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Mystery/Suspense
- Mystery & Detective - Historical
- Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths