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 Fisher returns to lead another dance of
intrigue.
Seven Australian soldiers,
carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder
and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years
later, two are dead ... under very suspicious
circumstances.
Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert
and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this
group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives
and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne
delves into the investigation that she, too, remembers
being in Montparnasse on that very same day.
While Phryne is occupied with memories of
Montparnasse past and the race to outpace the murderer,
she finds troubles of a different kind at home. Her lover,
Lin Chung, is about to be married. And the effect this is
having on her own usually peaceful household is disastrous.