Cocaine Blues

Introducing Australia's 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.