Unnatural Habits

<p><b>'Greenwood's strength lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are great'</b> <i><b>Vogue</b></i><br> <br> 1929: 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Praise for Kerry Greenwood:<br> <br> 'Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths with customary panache... [she is] <b>irresistibly charming</b>' <i>The Age</i><br> <br> 'Phryne Fisher is <b>gutsy and adventurous</b>, and endowed with plenty of grey matter' <i>West Australian</i><br> <br> <b>'In a word: delightful'</b> <i>Herald Sun</i><br> <br> 'Miss Fisher has beauty, brains and oodles of style ... a well-constructed novel that <b>enchants, excites, enthrals and entertains</b>' Good Reading Magazine</p>