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 a passenger 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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781472126757Number of pages: 304Weight: 244 gDimensions: 199 x 132 x 19 mm
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Greenwood's strength lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad,and the good guys are greatMiss Fisher is a remarkable and engaging creature who can solve whodunits as easily as if she were the naughty niece of Miss MarpleGreenwood's prose has a dagger in its garter; her hero is raunchy and promiscuous in the best senseFisher,a feisty sophisticate of the 1920s whose honour lies with the greater good. She's all class and intelligence: a seductive creature with a great wardrobePhryne Fisher is gutsy and adventurous,and endowed with plenty of grey matterElegant,fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack,Phryne sleuths with customary panache...(she is) irresistibly charmingPhryne Fisher is young,wealthy,beautiful,smart,confident and independently minded,and she has a knack for solving murders when she is not sipping a strengthening cocktail or planning another seduction
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