“While memories of the Titanic linger among the ship’s passengers, readers are treated to descriptions of sumptuous meals and snippets of Maori lore, along with a tantalizing mystery. Those who long to revel in a glamorous if imperfect past will be satisfied.” —Publishers Weekly
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 justifying the means, is just the person to mingle seamlessly with the upper classes and take on a case of theft on the high seas–or at least on the S.S. Hinemoa–on a luxury cruise to New Zealand. She is carrying the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani, as bait.
There are shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous swains, mickey finns, jazz musicians, blackmail, and attempted murder, all before the thieves find out–as have countless love-smitten men before them–that where the glamorous and intelligent Phryne is concerned, resistance is futile.
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 09/30/2011
Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries #15
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781590587348
Language: English
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