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I love this Aussie sleuth! Set in late 1920s Australia, our fearless flapper, Phryne (rhymes with briny) Fisher is on her game, when she happens upon a mummified, bullet ridden corpse, while visiting an amusement park with her family. The hunt is on! Her investigation takes her to the town of Castlemaine, where it soon is made clear in no uncertain terms that her attentions are unwanted.

Details of a long ago gold rush are woven into the fabric of the story, and as always, the mystery is peppered with quirky, interesting characters. Still, Phryne Fisher is always a standout, not only for her joie de vivre, but for her intelligence and independent thinking. There seems to be no mystery that she cannot solve. This is a wonderful fun series of mysteries, and this one is up to the mark and sure to keep the reader turning the pages.


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The Castlemaine Murders A Phryne Fisher Mystery Kerry Greenwood 9781590582800 Books Reviews

I am a huge fan of the Phryne Fisher book (and show!) series, and am a bit disappointed in this book. It literally took me 3 months to read because I could just NOT get into it. I had a hard time staying interested in the storyline, and found myself skipping over most of the letters at the beginning of each chapter.
Very interesting discussion of heraldry in England and paralleled by a discussion of Chinese ancestry honor. An intertwining series of murders done in olden times changes history. Action oriented in current time solves the murders of old and the current attempted murders.
Integrating the Australian Chinese community, the peerage and below of Britain, and Melbourne of 1928 as well as the Castlemaine gold fields of 1857, this book has slightly different adventures than its predecessors. Still, it is a lot of fun of the Phryne variety.
Having read a dozen or so of the Phryne Fisher novels I find they have settled into something of a formula. A crime, a bit of domestic difficulty, a bit of sex, a bit of the reliable Jack Robinson, some chaste romance between Dot and Hugh, a dash of danger. There is enough character development that I've come to care about the characters. A good deal of Aussie slang and vocabulary, plus a splash of period detail, and a bit of social commentary keep the images in my head vibrant and interesting.

The fall into the same general category as Agatha Christy's mysteries (with a dash of titillation). They are neither so literary nor so claustrophobic as Sayers' Lord Peter stories. Not populated with unpleasant people and filled with violence as James.
It has been a while since I read about Phryne, so it was lovely to catch up with her again! I enjoy how Kerry Greenwood manages to teach readers about something while simultaneously giving them a mystery to chew on.

In this book, we learn a lot about the search for gold in Australia in the 1850's. Of course, there are disappearances, murders, family feuds (in Lin Chung's arc of the story), attempts to enforce marriages (in Phryne's arc of the story), and we spend time with Phryne's younger sister, Beth, also known as Eliza.

While at Luna Park with Ruth, Jane, Dot, Beth, and Lin Chung, Phryne accidentally grabs the foot of a mummy in the dark Ghost Train ride. Of course, if Phryne is involved, the foot belongs to an actual corpse, and not a papier mache creation. This discovery actually ends up being pertinent to both Lin Chung and Phryne.

Greenwood again writes a well crafted story, and even though there are many characters, it is not difficult to keep them sorted out.

Another fine entry in the Phryne Fisher series!
When Phryne takes her adopted daughters, her visiting (and very strung-out) sister, and her assistant out for an afternoon of fun at the local amusement park, she expects an enjoyable afternoon with her extended family. But, as readers of this series have learned to expect, that's not what she gets. Instead she discovers a mummy who has been used as part of a horror ride. And thus begins a double threaded mystery-- Phryne seeking to uncover the body's identity, and Lin Chung trying to uncover a "lost" shipment of family gold. Both ft their quests lead them independently to Castlemaine, the site of Australia's gold rush in the 1800s.
This is a fine mystery, with engaging characters and plot, and a solid dose of intriguing Australian history.
Phryne Fisher fans know that she is not only sophisticated but also tough as nails when she needs to be but even she has trouble when it comes to dealing with her sister Beth.
Newly arrived back in Australia after spending years in England, Beth is not the same woman Phryne knew when they were growing up. In the past Beth was always dutiful, never any trouble. That's changed for some reason and she is now an angry, bitter woman.
That's a distraction because Phryne is now trying to solve an old murder.
It's a case that - almost literally - fell into her lap when she and her daughters Jane and Ruth were on a ride at an amusement park. What was supposed to be a prop during a fun house ride turns out to be a mummified corpse. The case takes Phryne to Castlemaine, an old mining town and gives author Kerry Greenwood an opportunity to weave some history into this story of love, betrayal and murder.
It also gives Greenwood an opportunity to introduce Beth as an ongoing character and a chance to make some sharp observations about the unfair treatment of women in the 1920s.
The mystery is an intriguing one and Greenwood's narrative takes no unexpected twists and turns to confuse the reader as Phryne follows clue after clue to solve the decades old murder. Beth is an interesting character and will, I think, prove even more so in future books. I give this 13th book in the Phryne Fisher saga 4.5 stars.
I love this Aussie sleuth! Set in late 1920s Australia, our fearless flapper, Phryne (rhymes with briny) Fisher is on her game, when she happens upon a mummified, bullet ridden corpse, while visiting an amusement park with her family. The hunt is on! Her investigation takes her to the town of Castlemaine, where it soon is made clear in no uncertain terms that her attentions are unwanted.

Details of a long ago gold rush are woven into the fabric of the story, and as always, the mystery is peppered with quirky, interesting characters. Still, Phryne Fisher is always a standout, not only for her joie de vivre, but for her intelligence and independent thinking. There seems to be no mystery that she cannot solve. This is a wonderful fun series of mysteries, and this one is up to the mark and sure to keep the reader turning the pages.