Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

I was fortunate to be given an advance review copy of this collection via Netgalley--many thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read this! Title: The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions Author: Kerry Greenwood Publisher: coming March 30 from Allen and Unwin. 272 pages (I read an unpaginated e-ARC) Source: Netgalley ARC Publisher's Blurb: The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, Cupid's Bow lips, diamante garters and pearl-handled pistol - is the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. Miss Phryne Fisher is up to her stunning green eyes in intriguing crime in each of these entertaining, fun and compulsively readable stories. With the ever-loyal Dot, the ingenious Mr Butler and all of Phryne's friends and household, the action is as fast as Phryne's wit and logic.     My Review: I have long been a fan of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher, so I was excited to get the opportunity to read this collection, though I was also a little wo...

  Title: Death Before Wicket Author: Kerry Greenwood   Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1999. My (US) edition: Poison Pen Press, 2008. 232 pages. Source: Library Summary:  Phryne has responded to a call for help from a pair of young university students, and plans to enjoy a bit of a holiday in Sydney at the same time. She's watching some cricket, storming the Arts Ball in a rather daring costume, locating her maid's sister, solving a crime or two, and of course enjoying the company of a lover. All that despite a climate that she finds melting. My Review: I always enjoy Phryne Fisher's outings, but found this one perhaps a bit less to my taste than most. Part of that might have been the cricket, a game which makes even less sense to me than baseball. That makes it hard (read: impossible) to follow whole paragraphs describing the game (even the title I'm pretty sure has more depth than my vague awareness of a play on some kind of cardinal cricket-sin called "leg befor...