Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher Mystery) ebook

by Stephanie Daniel,Kerry Greenwood

Stephanie Daniel Kerry Greenwood Thrillers and Suspense English

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The presence of the inimitable Phryne Fisher makes this mystery a delightful, glamorous romp of a novel-a literary glass of champagne with a hint of debauchery.

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Urn Burial by Kerry Greenwood is the 8th book in The Miss Phryne Fisher Mystery series Stephanie Daniels, who reads the series, had a great time with accents and really had fun with the story.

Urn Burial by Kerry Greenwood is the 8th book in The Miss Phryne Fisher Mystery series. Phryne is on her way to Cave House in the Victorian country when a shot is heard and they rescue a young maid. On arriving they find that this incident is one of many threats occurring in the house. I loved this book and especially all the Agatha Christie references. Stephanie Daniels, who reads the series, had a great time with accents and really had fun with the story. Apr 20, 2014 Beth rated it it was ok.

Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths her way through these classical detective stories with customary panache.

Phryne Fisher, intelligent, brave and stunningly chic, is back in this most entertaining mystery. With a brand new stylish 1920s cover, this seventh Phryne Fisher murder mystery is superb. Phryne Fisher, scented and surprisingly ruthless, is not one to let sleuthing an horrific crime get in the way of an elegant dalliance.

A chat with Greenwood and Daniel is the perfect dessert for this audio banquet.

Here she has fun with wordplay and classic mystery devices such as a Miss Marple-type character who knits her way to a solution. As narrator, the wonderful Stephanie Daniel remains faithful to the author's writing style. In Daniel's delivery the weak women simper, the rich are haughty, the gay men give just enough away, and the villains are creepy and convincing. A chat with Greenwood and Daniel is the perfect dessert for this audio banquet.

Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, and plays as well. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard", mathematician and author David Greagg.

A collection of Phryne Fisher short stories. If you think you would like entertaining audio books about a glamorous young lady private investigator in Melbourne in the late 1920's, then you will like Ms Phryne Fisher.

Many thanks to MarionJ for providing this one) 09. Raisins and Almonds (1997). A collection of Phryne Fisher short stories.

Urn Burial ( Phryne Fisher - 8 ) Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher, intelligent, brave and stunningly chic, is back in this most entertaining mystery. Phryne Fisher - 8 ). Kerry Greenwood. Phryne Fisher, intelligent, brave and stunningly chic, is back in this most entertaining mystery. The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country.

Written by Kerry Greenwood, Audiobook narrated by Stephanie Daniel. A Phryne Fisher Mystery. Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel. Series: Phryne Fisher, Book 8. Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins.

Phryne Fisher, scented and surprisingly ruthless, is not one to let sleuthing an horrific crime get in the way of an elegant dalliance. The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful country surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation around the house and the parlourmaid is found strangled to death. What with the reappearance of the mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman, an angry outcast heir, and the luscious Lin Chung, Phryne's attention has definitely been caught. Phryne's search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and of the limestone Buchan caves. But what will she find this time?

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I have been binging on Phryne Fisher stories--pretty much love them all. They are quick reads--the mysteries intriguing--and the characters are well thought out. Nancy Drew for grown ups. Jane Marple for the sassy, saucy, and sexy. The stories never mention that Phryne means toad, not a very flattering name. The stories reference the Greek courtesan namesake but not the fact that Phryne was a nickname. I love the time frame--and locale--Australia after WWI. Better than the TV series--but those are OK too. The actress that plays Phryne captures her character and look quite nicely.

Nekora

I generally love the Phryne Fisher mysteries, and this one is no exception. Phryne is a wonderful character: audacious, forward thinking, and highly intelligent. Set in 1920s Australia, these mysteries are a fun romp.

This one is set in Cave House, a rural country manor, where a house party is taking place. The mystery begins just as Phyrne arrives with her handsome Chinese lover, Lin Chung. Then, when a hapless maid is killed and the body goes missing, that coupled with mysterious threats, signals that the party is over but for the fact that the river has flooded and there is no where for any of the guests to go.

So, the guests remain, wondering who is next. This is definitely a riff on the English house party genre of cozy mysteries. As if that were not enough, sly homage is paid to two iconic characters, Miss Marple and Miss Silver. Leave it to Phryne to put to right what went wrong.

Fans of Phryne Fisher will enjoy this book, as will all those who love the cozy mystery genre.

Jode

Really enjoyed this book, was initially unsure after the disappointment of Ruddy Gore, and thought if this one was just as bad, would stop reading Kerry Greenwood's books. Almost gave Ruddy Gore a 2 star instead of a 3, but because I think her writing style is such fun and so well written, I gave it a 3. But this changed my mind ! will definitely read the next in the series. As she increases the cast of characters she finally listed the characters of the story with a very brief description of the part they play. That was an enormous help !.thank you K.Greenwood. Still miss Cec and Bert and her supporters. It's so easy to picture each character as she describes them. Each one is unique. I'm still hooked on this series. Good summer reading.

Risteacor

For reasons best known to the Fates (and author Kerry Greenwood) Phyrne Fisher - delectable, fashionable and as amoral as an alley cat - never seems to get a day off. In "Urn Burial," Melbourne's only aristocratic private detective is invited to a weekend house party out in the country. Seems innocent enough but on the way she rescues a housemaid who has barely escaped "a fate worse than death" by a rapist, finds herself in a sour mood when it later appears that her host - or perhaps his upright wife - objects to the fact that she brought her Chinese lover along to the party, winds up trapped in the house with a weird assortment of guests when a nearby river rises and prevents her from leaving, gets thrown from a horse and winds up in a cave trying to solve a murder.
It's enough to make her companion Dot Williams weep... she doesn't, of course, because in her own "good girl" way she is as stalwart as Miss Fisher.
This is in typical Greenwood fashion a fast-paced murder mystery with a host of interesting characters including a Surrealist poet - who sits a horse rather well; a dingo trapper who was once a geologist and a famous female novelist known to be a vamp. It's great fun and the perfect nighttime read now that the weather is turning colder and there's not much worth watching on television.

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I love the Miss Fisher mystery series, and this is no exception!

In this volume Green wood does a riff on the classic murder mystery house party, intensified by a flooding river cutting off normal access to the outside world. Meanwhile, there's murder, and blackmail, and revenge sought, and all sorts of other secrets.

The plot was nicely intricate, with both things that appeared to be related ending up not being, and things that seemed unrelated twisted up together. Despite all the complications this implies, I am reasonable sure that Greenwood pulled it off, without getting the threads snarled unintentionally.

There were a lot more characters this time, so it was nice to have a listing of them in the front of the book- I did check that a few times when I got confused, since everyone not in Phryne's party was new to me. Her cohort, though, were beautifully drawn and we learned more about all 3 of them. The others were reasonably complex within the limits of their limited roles, though I must say the Big Bad was not so much; he was a weird mixture of savvy and batso nuts. Still, that wasn't completely obvious to me till the end, because there were at least 2 other candidates.

Very enjoyable, especially when one has read a good number of country house-party murder mysteries! Greenwood has some great twists on them here.

Recommended, and I have to discipline myself not to just dive into the next one!

Nilarius

The minute I saw the name Mary Mead, I suspected a Jane Marple character a la St. Mary Meade by Christie. Instead of two unconnected mysteries, this had one perpetrated by two evil characters with events on the periphery caused by other characters. Trapping guests at Cave House due to a rising river was reminiscent of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". Only a few of Phryne's usual companions were present, and the doors had neither locks nor bolts. Although I suspected the sexual orientation of two of the characters, the way Miss Fisher discovered this fact was fun. I'm just glad it wasn't scratch and sniff.