Cocaine Blues (2006)
Cocaine Blues is a 2006 phryne fisher (fictitious character) book written by Kerry Greenwood.
The Honourable Phryne Fisher has money, style, and a growing boredom with the London party circuit. So she sails for Melbourne, ostensibly to check on a friend's daughter, and lands at the Windsor Hotel with an appetite for something sharper than cocktails. Detective work finds her fast: a poisoned wife, a cocaine ring, bent policemen, and whispers of communist agitation. Kerry Greenwood opens her long-running series here, giving the flapper-era sleuth a wardrobe as considered as her nerve. The 1920s glamour is real, and so is the grime running underneath it.
Quick answers
What is Cocaine Blues about?
The Honourable Phryne Fisher has money, style, and a growing boredom with the London party circuit. So she sails for Melbourne, ostensibly to check on a friend's daughter, and lands at the Windsor Hotel with an appetite for something sharper than cocktails. Detective work finds her fast: a poisoned wife, a cocaine ring, bent policemen, and whispers of communist agitation. Kerry Greenwood opens her long-running series here, giving the flapper-era sleuth a wardrobe as considered as her nerve. The 1920s glamour is real, and so is the grime running underneath it.
When was Cocaine Blues published?
Cocaine Blues was published in 2006.
Who made Cocaine Blues?
Cocaine Blues was written by Kerry Greenwood.
A few thoughts on Cocaine Blues
Phryne fans should try Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries for the same interwar puzzle-craft, or the Maisie Dobbs novels, which put another sharp woman to work as a 1920s investigator. For the period glamour and class friction with less murder, the show Downton Abbey covers similar ground with more manners.