Phryne Fisher is on holiday.
When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the neglectful care o.
She has the costume of a lifetime, and she\'s not afraid to use it.
She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall.
Phryne Fisher is on holiday