Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Genre: Mystery
Published: First Paperback Edition edition (April 1, 2007)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Number of pages: 175
Phyrne Fisher is wealthy, fashionable and smart. She is also bored of London society and when an acquaintance asks her to travel to Australia to check on his daughter, Phyrne acquiesces to go back to the place of her birth.
Taking place during the late 1920s, Phyrne (pronounced Fry-knee) settles in at Melbourne's posh Windsor Hotel, meets her colorful and recurring band of cohorts, Mac, Dot, Bert, Cec, and Inspector Robinson and quickly is immersed in dealing with a poisoning, a cocaine ring, a back-alley abortion racket, corrupt cops and communist cabbie sympathizers. She solves her mysteries with aplomb, all while dressing fabulous, finding an exotic lover, and having a true empathy for the working class, as she was once one of their members. Phyrne is sometimes called a "female James Bond" and that comparison is apt as she can do most anything, and look good while doing it. Cocaine Blues is the first of twenty mysteries featuring Phyrne. These books have been turned into a TV series. Rating: PG13.
Appeals:
- fast-paced
- unique setting
- satisfying cozy mystery
- Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series by Dorothy L. Sayers - set during the 1930s, initially focuses only on Lord Peter but later the series incorporates his love interest, Harriet Vane. The first in the series is Whose Body? Several of these novels have been adapted into radio and a TV series.
- Lady Georgiana Rannoch in the Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen, set in the 1930s amongst England's aristocrats, the first is Her Royal Spyness.
- Other classic cozies are those written by Dame Agatha Christie. One series stars the English amateur sleuth Miss Marple and another with the Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Most of the novels take place between the two world wars. These books have adapted into radio programs, TV series, movies, comic books and video games.
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