Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than 40 novels and six non-fiction books. Among her many honors, Ms. Greenwood has received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association of Australia for the Phryne Fisher series. When she is not writing she is an advocate in Magistrates’ Courts for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard. http://www.phrynefisher.com/
The Honourable Phryne Fisher—she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid’s Bow lips, and diamanté garters—is the 1920s’ most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This sparkling collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany—including Phryne’s favourite [...] Read More →
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 [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. [...] Read More →
On Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, yawned. Even perfection can become tedious. ‘My Lord,’ she called to Apollo, ‘Sun God and brother. Let us play a game with mortals – my power against yours.’ [...] Read More →
This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The [...] Read More →
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he’s roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand [...] Read More →
Dot unfolded the note. “He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher…I’ll leave out a bit…their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable.” Phryne got the door open at last. [...] Read More →
Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go [...] Read More →
The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief. Phryne [...] Read More →
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, particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough [...] Read More →
Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. That is until she walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher has her hands full in this, her second adventure. And just when we think she’s merely a brilliant, daring, sexy woman, Phyrne demonstrates other skills, including flying an airplane and doing her own stunts! [...] Read More →
Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a [...] Read More →
Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the former addict she rescued from her alleyway, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, though away for the last couple of [...] Read More →
Meet Phryne Fisher, the 1920s’ most elegant and irrepressible sleuth, in her first three adventures bound together in one great value volume. This is the perfect way to introduce your friends to your favourite and most [...] Read More →
Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Three Named, Lady of Phantoms. She is the custodian of the wood in which the Golden Fleece is hung. She alone can tame the giant serpent which [...] Read More →
Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. The divine Phryne [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher must save the attendants of 1928′s most stylish party from murder in this Australian caper.
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, has been engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He had some [...] Read More →
When the 1920s’ most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the [...] Read More →
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to [...] Read More →
St. Kildas streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the towns first Flower Parade. And who should be Queen of the [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne’s contentment at the Jewish Young People’s Society Dance is cut short when Simon’s father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout [...] Read More →
Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne’s two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark [...] Read More →
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things —dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she’s [...] Read More →
When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, baker Corinna Chapman is under-standably nervous. Meanwhile, her lover Daniel’s old friend Georgiana Hope [...] Read More →
1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty, golden haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous. Polly [...] Read More →
The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set [...] Read More →
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Phryne is my favorite detective, and Corinna runs a close second. Thank you for the glorious entertainment!
Does anyone know what ‘karez drawers’ are? This is used in ‘Murder in the Dark”: ‘she had not thought to have someone make her a new set of karez drawers, which prevented unintended consequences to the Templar Feast of Love.’
karez drawers are close-fitting underwear so that participants might enjoy each others’ bodies without public embarrassment.
Kerry,
I had your email address but it no longer works… So I’m putting it here in hopes that you see it.
I’ve been collecting the Kindle version of Phryne for a while now and when Unnatural Habits came out I bought it and went on a Phryne orgy! I started with Cocaine Blues and went straight through to Unnatural Habits… WOW!!!!!
The books are, as always, wonderful!!!!
But the Kindle editions need some attention. They’ve got formatting problems. Run together paragraphs, two or three characters dialog all run together in a single rather strange paragraph… Missing or incomplete italics… egg-and-bacon pie with and without dashes.
Examples:
Ruddy Gore is where dialog runs together in all too many places… you’ll have closing quote and then the opening quote for the next dialog one right after another with no paragraph returns in between… confusing…
Murder in the Dark has hyphenation problems… words hyphenated were they were probably broken for the printed version.
In Murder on a Midsummer Night there are a couple of places where the paragraphs are a bit strange… the paragraphs below are formatted as they appear in the Kindle edition:
‘Am I safe here?’ asked James, staring around wildly. ‘As houses,’ said Phryne. ‘Come now, who is trying to kill you?’ ‘My sister,’ said James. “Blanche White. Val and Luke.
Stephanie, Veronica. And that bastard Gerald Atkinson.’ ‘Oh,’ said Phryne blankly. ‘Why?’ ‘Because they think that I’ll tell about the treasure.’ ‘And about the murder… Kerry, I’ve typed it as it appears in my Kindle edition and it continues to be a bit confused until the phrase, ‘Lunch!’ announced Mr. Butler.
If it isn’t read carefully it gets very confusing as to who is speaking to whom… missing paragraph return or, as is the case between “…Luke.” and “Stephanie” an extra paragraph return.
In Dead Man’s Chest did you intend thankyou to be one word? It is at least once… I don’t know if you meant it to be one large paragraph but the tale of Puss in Boots is just that… one large paragraph…
Unnatural Habits – In the dining room Jack Robinson says: ‘I’ve set Collins on to tracing every big black car in the area, but that’s a bit of an ask.’ Ask or Task??? Also, later when Phryne is walking in her hall on the way to calling the bishop there are several lines where she’s thinking in dialog… shouldn’t those lines be in italics? “How anyone ever gets anything done in the tropics I can’t imagine, she thought.” And this isn’t the only occurrence… And shouldn’t the French be in italics??? It is in some of the other Phryne books… also the Latin? And in a couple of other places… except for parts of quotes at the beginning of various chapters there are no italics.
All of them need to have someone who can format them for Kindle to go over the files and make sure the formatting works!
The TV Series…
Then I found that AcornTV had the TV series available! I’ve subscribed to Acorn for a while since I have a Roku and can watch all those wonderful English and Canadian TV shows using it. And now, Australian ones! So I had a double Phryne orgy!!!
Overall I liked it very much… as long as I take it as its own thing and not a representation of the books… though it’s wonderful to see the clothes!!!! I know that they’re not the same ones as described in the book but it’s lovely to see the fashions! But I could have done with a bit more explanation of Phryne’s background. And I loved seeing the interiors! I want the bathroom in the TV series!!!!
It’s a bit weird that they’re combining some of the books and, of course, they don’t completely follow the books… it doesn’t do much for the chronology and they’ve also left out a few characters… but that’s to be expected in a TV adaptation. And where did Aunt Prudence come from?
Don’t like the fact that they’ve made Hugh protestant and Dot catholic when they’re both catholic in the books.
And I miss Mrs. Butler and the kitchen!!! She’s been mentioned but so far never seen… And Ruth!!!! I miss Ruth!!! The interaction between the two girls was a big part of the books. And I miss Ember and Molly! Also Jack Robinson is looking a bit like a love interest which is a bit weird…
Does the house they used in the series bear any resemblance to the look of Phryne’s bijou house in the books???? Is it really what a bijou house looks like?
Keep them coming!!!! PLEASE!!!
Kathleen
I have loved Phyrne Fisher for a while, she always seemed to me to be a combination of Djuna Barnes, Josephine Baker, Dolly Wilde and Gertrude Stein with a big helping of Nancy Wake! All of those ladies who were so fiercely independent in Europe during the 1920′s-50′s. She has the panache, the audacity and the style of all of those enlightened muses. I would love to know if Kerry Greenwood actually used any of these characters to inspire the exceptional Ms Fisher (Hon).
I have all of Kerry Greenwood’s books and eagerly await any new ones she is going to write.
I would like to get a copy of the reference book used in her last novel it is called.
Pitch your tents in a distant place. I have not been able to find it in the book stores. Please help me.
I will be hearing Kerry speak in Upway on the 10 th February 2013 and would like to have read the
reference book by then. Thank you
Joan
I bought it at a religious publisher’s in Lonsdale Street. The Sisters website mjight be able to sell it to you. It’s very heavy and very expensive
Kerry
I have just descovered your books and am addicted! I love Phyrne and Corinna…they are so unique and the stories are original and fascinating….I have been reading mysteries since I was in grade school and find many of the American female authors are boring and preditable…you never are….
Congratulations!
Thank you very kindly! Am writing a new Phryne as we speak.
Kerry
I have collected all of Phryne Fisher audios and am waitiing for the next after dead mans chest.
I am wondering when the Chapman books “cooking the book”, “Earthly Delights” and Forbidden Fruit is going to be made into audio books. I have enjoyed both Phryne Fisher and Corrnie Chapman audio’s to date but did not like the ABC series of Phyrne Fisher. I was expecting the actual stories and the ABC just did not cut it, sorry. Is it possible for you to answer my above questions about future audio books.
Thank you and please keep writing your stories are great to listen to especialy read by Stephen Daniels.
Bolinda assures me that they will be out as audio-books by June.
Kerry
my first Phryne Fisher book was an advanced reader that came to my bookstore. I am hooked, have read every one! Such a well rounded yet erudite character who is set in the perfect, for her, time and place. Then I discovered Corinna! What fun! It is hard to wait for Ms. Greenwood’s next mystery.
Just had a wonderful summer, I found Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher & Corrine Chapman; before the ABC series of Miss Fisher’s murders went to air. I have recommended Kerry’ s books to friends & anyone else who would listen, so have spread the joy. Thank you
I have just discovered Kerry Greenwood and Stephanie Daniel, could not be happier! Lovely easy to listen to stories and Stephanie is absolutely brilliant in her reading and portrayal of all the characters. I am listening to the audio books non stop to them and would make a great film. Thank you for all the work!
I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed “Earthly Delights.”
I would comment though that brief thanks to PDB Wimsey was in order though!