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Dead Man's Chest

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The unflappable Phryne is off on a quiet seaside holiday with Dot, Jane and Ruth - surely they won't be disturbed by a murder .

The gloriously unflappable Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this deadly treasure hunt.

Travelling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza accompanied by her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, The Hon Miss Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice holiday by the sea with absolutely no murders, but when they arrive at their rented accommodation that doesn't seem likely at all.

An empty house, a gang of teenage louts, a fisherboy saved, and the mystery of a missing butler and his wife seem to lead inexorably towards a hunt for buried treasure by the sea. But what information might the curious Surrealists be able to contribute? Phryne knows to what depths people will sink for greed but with a glass of champagne in one hand and a pearl-handled Beretta in the other, no-one is getting past her.

'Missing housekeepers and secretive Satie-swaying, patchouli-soaked surealists are all part of the scene, plus, of course, a whiff of delicious murder.' Australian Women's Weekly

'If you haven't yet met the delectable Miss Phryne Fisher, it is certainly time that you did.' Ballarat Courier

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 11, 2010
      In Greenwood's breezy 18th Phyrne Fisher novel set in the 1920s (after 2009's Murder on a Midsummer Night), the irrepressible Phyrne and her entourage start their holiday in Queenscliff, a small Australian coastal town, with a puzzle: the Johnsons, the cook and houseman of the house they are to stay in, have vanished. Despite their having been happy in their situation, the couple apparently had a moving van transport all their possessions, without leaving a note or any explanation. Phyrne adds another to her constantly growing ranks of strays she takes in with Tinker, a young boy whose help she enlists in her inquiries, and who, like almost everyone the PI encounters, is instantly smitten with her. A second puzzle in the form of an unknown person who's been cutting off girls' pigtails adds to the fun. As usual, the charming lead more than compensates for the minimal mystery solving.

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