Death Before Wicket

Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that celebrated young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime and she's not afraid to use it. Phryne girds up her loins, loads her pearl-handled .32 Beretta, and sallies forth to find mayhem, murder, a bit of black magic, and perhaps a really good cocktail at the Hotel Australia.