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Praise for Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher series

‘Independent, wealthy, spirited and possessed of an uninhibited style that makes everyone move out of her way and stand gawking for a full five minutes after she walks by—Phryne Fisher is a woman who gets what she wants and has the good sense to enjoy every minute of it!’ —Geelong Times

‘Phryne … is a wonderful fantasy of how you could live your life if you had beauty, money, brains and superb self control’ —The Age

‘Fisher is a sexy, sassy and singularly modish character. Her 1920s Melbourne is racy, liberal and a city where crime occurs on its shadowy, largely unlit streets. ’ —Canberra Times

‘The presence of the inimitable Phryne Fisher makes this mystery a delightful, glamorous romp of a novel—a literary glass of champagne with a hint of debauchery. ’ —Armidale Express

‘Impressive as she may be, Phryne Fisher, her activities and her world are never cloying thanks to Greenwood’s witty, slightly tongue-in-cheek prose. As usual, it’s a delightfully frothy, indulgent escape with an underlying bite. ’ —Otago Daily Times

‘Greenwood’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

‘If you have not yet discovered this Melbourne author and her wonderful books featuring Phryne Fisher, I urge you to do so now … In a word: delightful’ —Herald Sun

‘Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths her way through these classical detective stories with customary panache … Greenwood’s character is irresistibly charming, and her stories benefit from research, worn lightly, into the Melbourne of the period’ —The Age

‘The astonishing thing is not that Phryne is so gloriously fleshed out with her lulu bob and taste for white peaches and green chartreuse, but that I had not already made her acquaintance. ’ —Bendigo Advertiser

KERRY GREENWOOD is the author of more than forty novels and six non-fiction works, and the editor of two collections.

Previous novels in the Phryne Fisher series are Cocaine Blues, Flying too High, Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death at Victoria Dock, The Green Mill Murder, Blood and Circuses, Ruddy Gore, Urn Burial,Raisins and Almonds, Death Before Wicket, Away with the Fairies, Murder in Montparnasse, The Castlemaine Murders, Queen of the Flowers, Death by Water, Murder in the Dark and most recently A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury. She is also the author of a crime series featuring Corinna Chapman, baker and reluctant investigator, the first four novels of which are Earthly Delights, Heavenly Pleasures, Devil’s Food and Trick or Treat. In addition Kerry is the author of several books for young adults and the Delphic Women series. When she is not writing Kerry is an advocate in magistrates’ courts for the Legal Aid Commission. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered Wizard.

MURDER ON A

MIDSUMMER

NIGHT

A Phryne Fisher

Mystery

Kerry Greenwood

First published in 2008