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Written by Kerry Greenwood - Performed by Stephanie Daniel - Unabridged Fiction - 7 LIBRARY EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 8 hours, 40 minutes

Publisher, Bolinda Audio (January 2005)

NOTE: LIBRARY EDITIONS are packaged in a sturdy, durable outer vinyl case that stands up to years of repeated use designed for library and rental circulation. Albums are shelvable, space-efficient, with at-a-glance spine titles.

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Received the coveted AudioFile Magazine's 'Earphones Award' (April 2005) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterization, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"Phryne Fisher sparkles with wit and champagne elegance. Stephanie Daniel performs with genteel ease. Her upper-class Australian accents and her wild assortment of reputable and disreputable characters are truly amazing. Kerry Greenwood’s “Agatha-Christie meets-Indiana-Jones” plotting and Daniel’s energetic reading make this must listening." --AudioFile Magazine [Apr 05]

Phryne Fisher - dangerous, passionate, kind, clever and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance. It's the 1920's in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phyrne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions. But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.

About the Author: Kerry Greenwood is the author of twenty-seven novels and the editor of two collections. Novels in the Phryne Fisher series include Cocaine Blues, Flying too High, Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death at Victoria Dock, The Green Mill Murder, Blood and Circuses, Urn Burial, Raisins and Almonds, Death Before Wicket, Away with the Fairies, Murder in Montparnasse, The Castlemaine Murders and Ruddy Gore. She is also the author of several books for young adults and the Delphic Women series.

When she is not writing she is an advocate in Magistrates' Court for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard.

About the Performer: Stephanie spent several years acting in theatre, television and film in the UK and Europe and dubbing films into English in Munich, Paris and Rome. In Australia she has recorded countless audio books. Her television appearances include Mercury and Something in The Air. Films Stephanie has appeared include The Castle and in the theatre in her acclaimed portrait of Jane Austen.