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Death By Water

  • Kerry Greenwood

4.00

3 ratings

The divine Phryne Fisher returns in the fifteenth seductive instalment in the classic Phryne Fisher whodunnit series.Who are you?' asked the doctor. You are not the standard cruise passenger, I can tell you that.'Thank you,' said Phryne in a self-possessed manner. You are correct. I am a lot of things, some of which do not concern you, but mostly I am Phryne Fisher.'The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewellery thefts from first class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruise liners, particularly when it is likely that it is a passenger who is doing the stealing.Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's bow lips and Chanel travelling suits, is exactly the sort of elegant sleuth to take on a ring of jewellery thieves aboard the high seas - or at least, aboard the SS Hinemoa on a luxury cruise to New Zealand. With the Maharani - the Great Queen of Sapphires - as the bait, Phryne rises magnificently to the challenge.There are shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous husbands, mickey finns, blackmail and attempted murder, all before the thieves find out - as have countless love-smitten men before them - that where the glamorous and intelligent Phryne is involved, resistance is futile.Greenwood's prose has a dagger in its garter.' Graeme Blundell, The Australian

Genres

  • Mystery
  • Fiction
  • Jewelry theft
  • Fisher, phryne (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • New zealand, fiction
  • Mystery and detective
  • Crime, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Australia, fiction
  • Phryne Fisher (Fictitious character)
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About the author

  • Kerry Greenwood

    4.02

    64 ratings · 256 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Allen & Unwin

    2005

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    Bolinda Publishing

    December 31, 2007

  • Edition cover

    1st U.S. ed.

    Poisoned Pen Press

    2008

  • Edition cover

    Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd

    2009