Death by Water: A Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Novel

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is now available for streaming on Netflix and features Essie Davis as the honorable Phryne Fisher. "While memories of the Titanic linger among the ship's passengers, readers are treated to descriptions of sumptuous meals and snippets of Maori lore, along with a tantalizing mystery. Those who long to revel in a glamorous if imperfect past will be satisfied," according to Publishers Weekly.

The men at P&O are concerned about a series of thefts of jewelry from first-class passengers, as it is not good for their cruises' reputation. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, cupid's bow lips, and belief in the ends justifying the means, is the perfect person to seamlessly mingle with the upper classes and take on a case of theft on the high seas - or at least on the S.S. Hinemoa - during a luxury cruise to New Zealand. She is using the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani, as bait.

The story includes shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous admirers, mickey finns, jazz musicians, blackmail, and attempted murder, all before the thieves realize - as countless love-smitten men before them have - that resistance is futile when it comes to the glamorous and intelligent Phryne.

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