Death at Victoria Dock (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, 4) Paperback – January 3, 2017

Families with dread secrets...missing child...abuse and mistreatment... Revolutionaries...guns...friend and lovers in danger...oh my oh my oh my...Just another Phryne Fisher and clan series of adventures...A day in the life.MS Greenwood has another hit on her hands,The Television version touches on the case of the Revolutionaries very well...and...I prefer the book which can add so much depth and color to the story...The story of the missing girl in the T.V. series is much sadder and more skimmed over than the book's tale and filled out with more specific detail...the T.V. version was much more tragic, though this story is so tragic in and of itself.I love the at home characters so much...Phryne, herself and Dot,, Mr and Mrs Butler, Jane and Ruth, Constable Col!ins, and Ember the cat who does bot show up quite bas much as expected in this novel...A very 'convenient' cat character....The lovers are always well described and filled out so that one feels so sorry for them when the stories end...Phryne is a bit of a predator, when it comes down to it...the men all fall foe her big time but never seem to show up again (except for Lib Chung...)...I always wonder what f they disappear and whether they exist anymore at all...???Anyway another enjoyable read...not quite as challenging, vocabulary band quotes wise as some of the others...so a bit easier ( not so many forays to the dictionary nor Wikipedia in this one...not so many efforts to translate words into English from other languages, either in this one!).Written well. Complete plotting. Great characters. Suspense. Wonder. Worth thebread. Learned new things about the time and places.Would read again.Highly recommended.Each book can stand alone...though probably best to read in order to truly understand the development and growth of all the characters and their stories.

First off, I must say that I gave the book only 4 stars because it was not long enough! I wanted more!Phryne Fisher is a bold, strong female character set in a time when these characteristics were frowned upon by polite society. She has survived service in the First World War and returned to a rough-and-tumble Australia, where she fights for the right -- kind of like a Wild West hero, but she's a girl. The violence and sex are clearly there, so I chose to describe them as "explicit" but they are not gory or stomach-turning. I chose my rating because I would not recommend this for teens. By today's standards of morality, it may be acceptable for Phyrne to have sex with various men whom she does not love nor commit to, and to grab an attacker by the testicles, but I personally would not recommend that my granddaughter read about it. At least, not just yet.The plot is interesting and the characters are well-drawn. The sentences are not long and involved, and the words are common enough not to require a dictionary at any point. There is a good amount of suspense, considering that this is a fairly short book.

If you don't know The Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher then you're missing a treat. She's beautiful, rich, smart, sassy and just a bit deadly and in this crackling good mystery she has to solve the murder of a young anarchist.It's not that she wanted to get involved in this case, mind you. She was driving home after dinner with friends when someone put a bullet hole through the windshield of her very nice car while in the process of shooting a handsome young man to death.(Phryne doesn't like it when handsome young men are murdered because, as she says, there are too few of them in the world.)Phryne, named after a famous Greek courtesan because her father was drunk at the time and thought he was naming her after a goddess, is a Roaring Twenties flapper, a thoroughly modern woman with a very interesting back story that includes service as an ambulance driver during World War I, a little time spent as an artist's model in post-war Paris, some time spent with the notorious Apache gangs of the City of Light and - well if you want to know more you'll just have to read the books.This case, as most of them do, gets Phryne into a bit of trouble. What's unusual about this mystery, however, is that her faithful companion Dot Williams also winds up in the soup when she gets kidnapped by anarchists. It's a thoroughly enjoyable read that pulls the reader along while providing a fascinating look at Australia just after The Great War and just before The Great Depression.