Product Overview
Its the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the womens magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chungs imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chungs family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.
