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Corinna Chapman is happy with her life as a baker. And her Israeli lover, Daniel, is as enchanting as ever. She has no intention of doing any more investigative work. At least not until she bit into what should have been a lovely violet cream chocolate and instead chomped down on a chili-filled catastrophe. Why would someone sabotage gourmet chocolate? Does someone want Heavenly Pleasures, her friends' chocolate shop, to fail? Is this a horrib...

The circus is in town, and St Kilda is having its first Flower Festival. And who should be Queen of said Flowers but the Honourable Phryne Fisher? She has dresses to purchase, cinemas to visit, and agreeable cocktails to drink. One of her flower maidens, however, has vanished. Phryne investigates the under-world with the help of Bert, Cec, her little beretta, and an old flame from Orkney, the owner of the most exclusive brothel in St Kilda, an...

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Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. She alights to finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms...and all over her silk shirt. Enraged by the loss of the clothing, the damage to her car, and this senseless waste of human life, Phryne promises to find out who is responsible. But she doesn't yet know ho...

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If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well, particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a malnourished body, Corinna is very disturbed indeed. On top of that, her hippie mother,...

When a cut-price franchise bakery opens down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, baker Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, her lover Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily set up residence in his house. She's tall, blond, and gorgeous, and it doesn't take Corinna long to work out that she's up to something. Daniel is making excuses and Corinna is worried about his absences. But...

Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime, and she's not afraid to use it. When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving ...

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Praise for Trick or Treat..."A rich confection that nicely balances humor, villainy, and a puzzle." -Publishers Weekly"Working a case loosely based on a true story, Corinna and her friends are as delightful as ever, the killer a surprise, and the appended recipes a treat." -Kirkus ReviewsWhen a cut-price franchise bakery opens just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, baker Corinna Chapman is understand...

Dot unfolded the note. "He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher...I'll leave out a bit...their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable." Phryne got the door open at last. She stepped into the hall. "I think he was mistaken about that, " she commented.Traveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza with her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, Phry...

Traveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza with her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice holiday by the sea with absolutely no murders, but when they arrive at their rented accommodation that doesn't seem likely at all.An empty house, a gang of teenage louts, a fisherboy saved, and a missing butler and his wif...

Praise for the Phryne Fisher series... "The best Australian import since Nicole Kidman...." -Booklist starred review of Away with the Fairies The nice men at P&O, are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green ¿eyes, cupid's bow lips, and sense of the ends justifyin...

Praise for Murder on a Midsummer Night... "As usual, Greenwood populates the novel with an assortment of offbeat characters...and Phryne has plenty of opportunities to unleash her acid tongue and apply her razor-sharp wit." - Booklist The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, has been engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He had some strange ...

Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is a summer festival. Corinna is a perfect size 20 with a genius for baking bread. And while dreaming of air-conditioned comfort, she finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking the definitive gl...

Corinna Chapman detests Christmas. Shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia. And now, Corinna finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking the definitive glacé cherry recipe, a fearless witch, and the handsome Daniel with whom she would like to spend a lot more time.But Daniel is tracking two runaways whose Romeo-and-Juliet romance is not as s...