Monthly Archives: September 2015

Fiction Review: Cocaine Blues, a Phryne Fisher Detective Novel by Kerry Greenwood (1989)

In Cocaine Blues, the first novel of Kerry Greenwood’s rip-roaring mystery series set in 1920s Melbourne Australia, we are introduced to the fabulous world of the Honourable Phryne Fisher. Not only is Phryne Fisher a preeminent female gumshoe of the flapper era, she solves crimes with panache and in high fashion while driving fast flashy […]
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Fiction Review: Mickey Spillane’s I, The Jury (1947)

Fiction Review: Mickey Spillane’s I, The Jury (1947) I, The Jury was written in 1947 and is considered a classic of early hard-boiled detective fiction. It was Mickey Spillane’s first novel starring the manly detective Mike Hammer, the last of which was published in 1996. I was attracted to the story after reading an interview […]
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