DEAD MAN’S CHEST BY KERRY GREENWOOD, ALLEN & UNWIN, $22.99.
Hot-blooded private detective Phryne Fisher and her bathing dress – “no back and hardly any front” – head to Queenscliff for a holiday.
Along for the ride are her adopted daughters, bookish Jane and culinary Ruth, devoted maid Dot and hound Molly, who all take off in the roaring ’20s Hispano-Suiza for this 18th murder mystery in the hit series. Queenscliff “used to be very select … but since the railway went through, we have lots of trippers … pork pie hats and eating ice-cream in the streets”, warns “suicidally blonde” neighbour Mrs Mason, the first of Greenwood’s delightful cast of characters. Missing housekeepers and secretive Satie-swaying, patchouli-soaked surrealists are all part of the scene, plus, of course, a whiff of delicious murder.
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