COCAINE BLUES

ISBN: 9780369313287 Géneros: Sinópsis: Introducing Australias most elegant and irrepressible sleuth The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s but the Honourable Phryne Fisher she of the green grey eyes diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers making polite conversations with retired colonels and dancing with weak chinned men Instead Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne Australia Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel Phryne is embroiled in mystery poisoned wives cocaine smuggling rings corrupt cops and communism not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer Sasha de Lisse until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street