Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood

Phyrne Fisher heads for Melbourne, Australia, where she encounters a mystery involving poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling, corrupt cops, and communism.

I admit I only wanted to read this because I enjoyed the TV show. TV Phryne was great, and she's great in the book too. She's glamorous and adventurous and sexy. She's so much fun. The TV episode was different from the book, but I like them both so much it doesn't matter. I'd like to read the rest of the books. Phryne's a great character.

Fun detective story. I really like Phryne and Dot. I've seen the first season of the TV-show, which is also great.

Well...

The clothes are all wrong. It started nicely, I got excited, but at the third pair of trousers... :-( And the streetwalker costume... that was the last straw. :-(

I was very impressed by the descriptions of food in the beginning of the book, but that, too, fizzled.

I was not at all impressed by the judgmental descriptions of women.

I believe I would not have liked Phryne if I hadn't learned to know her through the tv show. That's wonderful.

The mystery was good enough, interesting, exciting, well written, but... as said. I don't think I'll be continuing reading the rest of this series, at least now. Maybe one day when I need a quick read. It's harmless enough.