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The Castlemaine Murders
The Castlemaine Murders
The Castlemaine Murders
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The Castlemaine Murders

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"An unforgettable character, with a heart as big as her pocketbook, a fine disregard for convention and an insatiable appetite for life." —Denver Post

The fabulous Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the perfect 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.

Digging into this longstanding mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it's soon obvious that someone is trying to muzzle her investigations. With unknown threatening assailants on her path, Phryne seems headed for more trouble than usual....

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSourcebooks
Release dateSep 30, 2011
ISBN9781615953660
The Castlemaine Murders
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Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D’Arcy, is an award-winning children’s writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written twenty books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them. In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Back to a more favored status (really, I just don't like reading about sports), this episode in Miss Fisher's exciting life is right after Lin Chueng has returned from adventures in China - and they do get a touch steamy. It's all so understated though, and she is just a hoot - I'd like to have her as a pal.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This episode of Miss Fisher's story is a little disappointing, at least after two very strong entries in the series -- "Away With the Fairies", and "Murder in Montparnasse". Maybe it's unlucky 13, but I found "The Castlemaine Murders" less involving, and the plot less gripping. The side plot about the Chinese in the mid-19th century Gold Rush is interesting, but the story we run into first (featuring the dessicated corpse of cowbow) was less so, for me at least. Still and all, any Phryne is a good mystery.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Phryne Fisher has had her sister descend on her and treat her badly, now she's trying to entertain everyone, so they go to Luna Park to amusements, during a Ghost Train Phryne finds a corpse, disguised, mummified but with a bullet hole. While she starts poking in it, her life, and the life of her household becomes threatened. This doesn't put her off but makes her more determined to investigate.Meanwhile her lover, Lin Chung, is investigating a feud between his family and another Chinese family and finding a mystery that he too has to investigate, both mysteries eventually lead to the same place, Castlemaine.The relationships are interesting and she is so easily smart, but the ending felt anti-climactic. I liked the relationship between Lin Chung's wife and Phryne though.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a fun read. I liked the characters and the setting.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I think I've had enough of Phyrne Fisher. She's too perfect, too smart, too clever, too progress and gets everyone to fall in line and do as she says. On an outing to an an amusement park, Phyrne and clan discover a mummified body in a tunnel ride. They decide to investigate to find out who the man was. Meanwhile her lover Lin is unraveling a family quarrel over missing gold.

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