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Author
Series
Gemma Woodstock novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Lost and alone after relocating to Melbourne, brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is assigned to a hostile partner before investigating two seemingly unrelated murders--a homeless man and a high-profile movie star.
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and members of her household are in danger from anarchists, they manage to foil a bank robbery while also solving the case of a missing young girl.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"...the incomparable Phryne Fisher...beautiful, wealthy, sophisticated, but, above all, daring and intelligent..." —Library Journal
Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight would be more than enough excitement for most people, but not for Phryne—amateur detective and woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades.
In fact, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous
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Series
Inspector Hal Challis mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of detective John Dorn told in ten cases. The "cases" are as different as can be, but each one reveals a little more of Dorn's own troubled past and his dire present, leading to a final confrontation with his arch nemesis: himself.
Author
Series
Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an elderly woman is snatched from her train compartment and murdered, the woman's daughter hires glamorous jazz baby and private investigator Phryne Fisher to find the killers.
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were published as A Lifetime on Clouds in 1976 and the last...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced he was murdered; the coroner is not so sure. Or the skeleton...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious invitation arrives for the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But the pair barely...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Verse Chorus Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author's native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered - her head bashed in with a "buttinsky," a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls - Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Honourable Phryne Fisher--she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips, and diamante garters--is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This sparkling collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany--including Phryne's favourite shoes and hats, delicious cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwated admierers--is a gorgeously collectable treat for all Phryne fans. Lavishly illustrated with divine colour...
17) Dangerous games
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Book/Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Dhampire Riley Jenson, a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, journeys to Melbourne and into the heart of the city's seductive and dangerous urban underworld to find an enigmatic killer who has been using a nightclub that caters to its denizens' every fantasy as his stalking grounds.
Author
Series
Murray Whelan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In Australia, sleuth Murray Whelan investigates the suspicious death of a Turkish worker in a meatpacking plant. The probe leads to the discovery of political corruption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that week. Bookending her pleasant dinner with her new friend...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in another delicious mystery.
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