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Unnatural habits, a Phryne Fisher mystery, Kerry Greenwood

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Unnatural habits, a Phryne Fisher mystery, Kerry Greenwood
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Unnatural habits
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Kerry Greenwood
Series statement
A Phryne Fisher mystery, 19
Sub title
a Phryne Fisher mystery
Summary
When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty, golden haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous.Polly Kettle, a pushy, self important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense of self preservation, decides to investigate and promptly goes missing herself.It's time for Phryne and Dot to put a stop to this and find Polly Kettle before something quite irreparable happens to all of them. It's all piracy and dark cellars, convents and plots, murder and mystery....and Phryne finally finds out if it's true that blondes have more fun
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