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Series
  
Phryne Fisher

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Originally published
  
1989

Followed by
  
Flying Too High

Country
  
Australia

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1989

Preceded by
  
N/A

Author
  
Kerry Greenwood

Publisher
  
McPhee Gribble

OCLC
  
27602170

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ISBN
  
0-86914-172-4 McPhee Gribble 0-449-14733-9 Fawcett Publications

Similar
  
Kerry Greenwood books, Phryne Fisher mystery books, Other books

Cocaine Blues is a crime novel by Kerry Greenwood, first published in Australia in 1989 by McPhee Gribble and in the United States in 1991 under the title of Death By Misadventure by Fawcett Publications. It is the first novel featuring Phryne Fisher.

Contents

Plot introduction

After the Honourable Phryne Fisher solves a country-house jewel robbery in record time, she is asked by Colonel and Mrs. Andrews to look into the matter of their daughter in Australia, who they fear may be being poisoned by her husband. Having grown bored with English social life, Phryne is happy to have an excuse to put off making decisions about her future for the next few months or so, and promptly relocates to Melbourne.

Characters in Cocaine Blues

  • the Honourable Phryne Fisher
  • Lydia Andrews, a well-off young married woman who falls ill whenever her husband is around
  • John Andrews, a bully
  • Butcher George, back-alley abortionist and rapist
  • Alice Greenham, latest victim of Butcher George
  • Bert (Albert Johnson), cabbie, friend of Cec, communist
  • Dr. Elizabeth MacMillan, surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women
  • the Honourable Bobby Matthews, an amateur cricketer
  • Detective-Inspector Jack Robinson, Melbourne police
  • Dorothy (Dot), hired by Phryne as confidential maid and social secretary
  • Cec (Cecil Yates), friend of Bert and truck driver, soft-hearted and known for taking in strays of all kinds
  • Sasha de Lisse a Russian Dancer that has a grudge against drug dealers.

    • Adaptations

    Cocaine Blues, as well as other novels featuring Phryne Fisher, were adapted into the Australian television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

    References

    Cocaine Blues (novel) Wikipedia
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