{"product_id":"the-castlemaine-murders-phryne-fisher","title":"The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher)","description":"Review\n\nGreenwood's strength lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are great ― Vogue\n\nPhryne Fisher is gutsy and adventurous, and endowed with plenty of grey matter ― West Australian\n\nElegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths with customary panache ... [she is] irresistibly charming ― The Age\n\nPhryne 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 ― The Australian's Review of Books\n\nProduct Description\n\nPhryne Fisher is back - as smart and sassy as ever.\n\nPhryne 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 Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fisher's pleasure trip has definitely become business.\n\nDigging to the bottom of this longstanding mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it soon becomes obvious that someone is trying to muzzle her investigations. With unknown threatening assailants on her path, Phryne seems headed for more trouble than usual.\n\nMeanwhile, Phryne's lover Lin Chung has his own mystery to solve. Feuding families and lost gold fill his mind until he learns that Phryne herself has become missing treasure.\n\nBook Description\n\nIn this thirteenth Phryne Fisher mystery, Phryne returns with a flourish to solve the most horrifying crime yet which takes her from a funfair ghost train to an abandoned mine in the old gold fields.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nPhryne 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 Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fisher's pleasure trip has definitely become business.\n\nDigging to the bottom of this longstanding mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it soon becomes obvious that someone is trying to muzzle her investigations. With unknown threatening assailants on her path, Phryne seems headed for more trouble than usual.\n\nMeanwhile, Phryne's lover Lin Chung has his own mystery to solve. Feuding families and lost gold fill his mind until he learns that Phryne herself has become missing treasure.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nKERRY GREENWOOD is the author of more than forty novels and six non-fiction titles, and the editor of two collections. Phryne Fisher is her most successful series to date - there are currently 18 in the series. She lives in Australia with a registered wizard.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40136823111765,"sku":"9781472126726N","price":5.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ecb96155-36a6-4e4b-ae6a-c85f345b495b.jpg?v=1656280197","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-castlemaine-murders-phryne-fisher","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}