num_pages: 336
description: Taking the waters has never been more delicious--or dangerous...When a mysterious invitation for a spa holiday arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart but what can Spencer want from her?Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. While Dot gets to know the remarkable women who run the hotel where they are lodging Phryne enjoys an enticing meal--and dessert--with the attractive Captain Spencer. But their relaxation is short-lived as they are thrown into treacherous Highland gatherings a mysterious case of disappearing women and a string of murders committed under their very noses. Meanwhile back at home Phryne's three wards are busy solving a mystery of their own when a schoolmate is found floating facedown near the docks--and pregnant at the time of her death.With her usual pluck and deft thinking Phryne methodically investigates the strange goings-on in this anything-but-tranquil spa town.
language: English
title: Death in Daylesford
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press