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y separately published work icon Flying Too High single work   novel   crime   mystery  
Is part of Phryne Fisher Mysteries Kerry Greenwood , 1989- series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Flying Too High
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The 1920's most talented and glamorous detective, Phryne Fisher, handles a murder, a kidnapping and the usual beautiful young men with style and consummate ease - and all before it's time to adjourn to the Queenscliff Hotel for breakfast. (Source: back cover, 1990 edition)

Notes

  • Dedication: To David Lewis John Greagg / My own dear darling
  • Epigraph: Flying too high with some girl in the sky / Is my idea of nothing to do / But I get a kick out of you / 'I Get a Kick Out of You', Cole Porter

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1990 .
      image of person or book cover 341544171113638921.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 173p.
      ISBN: 9780869142158, 0869142151
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Ballantine Books ,
      1992 .
      Extent: 147p.
      Edition info: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
      Note/s:
      • 'A roaring twenties mystery' (appears on cover).
      ISBN: 0449147770, 9780449147771
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1993 .
      Extent: 172p.
      ISBN: 0869142992, 9780869142998
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Phryne Fisher Mysteries : Volume One : Cocaine Blues and Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , Brisbane : Pulp Fiction Press , 2003 Z1121963 2003 selected work novel Brisbane : Pulp Fiction Press , 2003
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2005 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy Allen & Unwin
      Extent: 172p.
      ISBN: 9781741145670, 1741145678
    • Scottsdale, Arizona,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Poisoned Pen Press ,
      2006 .
      Extent: 156p.
      Edition info: 1st US hardcover edition.
      ISBN: 1590582373 (hbk), 9781590582374 (hbk)
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher : Become Addicted to Phryne's First Three Riveting Mysteries Kerry Greenwood , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011 Z1784539 2011 selected work novel crime mystery 'Our unflappable, unconventional and uninhibited heroine, The Honourable Phryne Fisher, leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. In her first three adventures, she encounters communism, cocaine, kidnappers and murderers. Phryne handles everything - danger, excitement and love - with her inimitable panache and flair, and still finds a little time for discreet dalliances and delicious diversions.' (Source: Allen and Unwin website)
    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011
Alternative title: Miss Fisher in Turbulenzen
Language: German

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Phryne Fisher Kerry Greenwood , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 89-97)
[Review] Flying Too High Sophie Masson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Mean Streets : A Quarterly Journal of Crime, Mystery and Detection , February no. 2 1991; (p. 57)

— Review of Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel
Crime Ray Davie , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 January 1991; (p. 2)

— Review of Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel
Shooting Straight at Heart of the Matter Robin Wallace-Crabbe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 February 1991; (p. rev 6)

— Review of Tropic of Fear J. R. Carroll , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; A Very Proper Death Alex Juniper , 1990 single work novel ; Wait Till Holly Comes Robert English , 1990 single work novel ; The Case of the Chinese Boxes Marele Day , 1993 single work novel
Crime Rules - OK? R. F. Brissenden , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 1 no. 2 1991; (p. 100-103)

— Review of Tropic of Fear J. R. Carroll , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; A Very Proper Death Alex Juniper , 1990 single work novel ; Wait Till Holly Comes Robert English , 1990 single work novel ; Still Murder Finola Moorhead , 1990 single work novel
Jovial Rogues, Men of Inaction and Excitable Gals Stephen Knight , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 December 1990; (p. 39)

— Review of Tropic of Fear J. R. Carroll , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; Shaved Fish Susan Geason , 1990 selected work short story
Crime Rules - OK? R. F. Brissenden , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Voices , Winter vol. 1 no. 2 1991; (p. 100-103)

— Review of Tropic of Fear J. R. Carroll , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; A Very Proper Death Alex Juniper , 1990 single work novel ; Wait Till Holly Comes Robert English , 1990 single work novel ; Still Murder Finola Moorhead , 1990 single work novel
Shooting Straight at Heart of the Matter Robin Wallace-Crabbe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 February 1991; (p. rev 6)

— Review of Tropic of Fear J. R. Carroll , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; A Very Proper Death Alex Juniper , 1990 single work novel ; Wait Till Holly Comes Robert English , 1990 single work novel ; The Case of the Chinese Boxes Marele Day , 1993 single work novel
Australian Private Eyes Arrive in Time for Christmas Katharine England , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 8 December 1990; (p. 14)

— Review of The Case of the Chinese Boxes Marele Day , 1993 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel
Good Fun - of the Formula Variety Jane Stephens , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Society , December vol. 9 no. 12 1990; (p. 48)

— Review of A Reliable Source Ric Throssell , 1990 single work novel ; Flying Too High Kerry Greenwood , 1990 single work novel ; Faces in the Rain Roland Perry , 1990 single work novel
Beach Books Vincent Smith , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 46-47)
Phryne Fisher Kerry Greenwood , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 89-97)
Historic Whodunnits Philip Kahllems , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald (Sunday Review) , 16 December 1990; (p. 20)
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