Книга: Kerry Greenwood «Blood and Circuses»

Blood and Circuses

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`A top-notch entry in this witty, hugely entertaining series.` -Booklist Phryne Fisher is bored. Life has become too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at her door. Alan Lee and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrell`s Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in Mrs. Witherspoon`s irreproachable boarding house, and Miss Parkes-an ex-performer-is charged with his murder. Phryne must go deep undercover to be effective. She must abandon her name, her title, her protection, her comfort-even her clothes. She must fall off a horse twice a day until she can stay on. She must sleep in a girl`s tent and dine on mutton stew. And she must find some allies. Meanwhile in Melbourne, young, fresh-faced policeman Tommy Harris has to solve his own mysteries with the help of the foul-spoken harridan... ISBN:9781590585207

Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (2011)

ISBN: 9781590585207

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Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood signing books at the launch of Forbidden Fruit
Born Kerry Greenwood
17 June 1954
Melbourne
Occupation Writer, locum solicitor
Language English
Nationality Australian
Genres Crime, historical, science-fiction
Notable work(s) Phryne Fisher series
Notable award(s) Multiple, see below
Partner(s) Registered wizard
Children None

Kerry Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria[1]) is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of 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, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard."

Contents

Awards and nominations

  • Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner for The Broken Wheel
  • Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: honour book for A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919
  • Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Three-Pronged Dagger
  • Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: nominated for The Wandering Icon
  • Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: nominated for Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Contribution, 2003
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Queen of the Flowers : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, 2006: shortlisted for Journey to Eureka
  • Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2006: joint winner for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
  • Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2007: joint winner for Devil's Food
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: nominated for Trick or Treat

Books

Phryne Fisher historical mysteries

  1. Cocaine Blues (1989) aka Death by Misadventure[2]
  2. Flying Too High (1990)
  3. Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)
  4. Death at Victoria Dock (1992)
  5. The Green Mill Murder (1993)
  6. Blood And Circuses (1994)
  7. Ruddy Gore (1995)
  8. Urn Burial (1996)
  9. Raisins and Almonds (1997)
  10. Death Before Wicket (1999)
  11. Away With the Fairies (2001)
  12. Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
  13. The Castlemaine Murders (2003)
  14. Queen of the Flowers (2004)
  15. Death By Water (2005)
  16. Murder in the Dark (2006)
  17. Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
  18. Dead Man's Chest (2010)


  • The Phryne Fisher Mysteries: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High (omnibus) (2004)
  • A Question of Death (short story collection) (2008)

Corinna Chapman mysteries

  1. Earthly Delights (2004)
  2. Heavenly Pleasures (2005)
  3. Devil's Food (2006)
  4. Trick or Treat (2007)
  5. Forbidden Fruit (2009)
  6. Cooking the Books (2011)

Delphic Women

  • Cassandra (1995)
  • Electra (1996)
  • Medea (1997)

Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)

  • The Bold and The Brave (2000)

Stormbringer

The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.

  • The Rat and the Raven (2005)
  • Lightning Nest (2006)
  • Ravens Rising (2006)

Novels

  • The Wandering Icon (1992)
  • The Childstone Cycle (1994)
  • Quest (1996)
  • The Broken Wheel (1996)
  • Whaleroad (1996)
  • Cave Rats (1997)
  • Feral (1998)
  • Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral published in one volume in 2002

Collections

  • Recipes for Crime (1995) (with Jenny Pausacker)

Anthologies edited

  • Bad to the Bones (2002)

Short fiction

"Jetsam" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)

Non-fiction

  • On Murder (2000)
  • On Murder 2 (2002)

Notes

  1. ^ "Kerry Greenwood". Austlit. http://www.austlit.edu.au/common/samples/Greenwood.html. Retrieved 2008-06-15. 
  2. ^ Kerry Greenwood at Fantastic Fiction

External links


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