secret entrance in a tailor's shop

I am reading my way through the Miss Fisher novels by Kerry Greenwood, and they are fantastic good fun, very tropey in the best way - Phryne has a wonderful tendency to pick up wounded and beautiful young men, bandage them up and then have enthusiastic sex with them until they feel better. And feed them delicious meals, this is not a good series to read when you're hungry. They're also shockingly full of cameos and in-jokes. Miss Mary Mead featured in one, and she was exactly who you'd expect her to be, but the one I'm reading at the moment is a full-blown Sherlock crossover with Phryne as matchmaker, it's incredible and is almost as much a Sherlock fic as it is a Miss Fisher story. Also I'm pretty sure I saw a hat-tip to MFU in there too, and I'm only surprised Lord Peter hasn't strolled around in the background at any point.

They are quite like the TV series, but with some interesting differences, mainly that Phryne and Jack have absolutely zero chemistry in the books; apart from Mr Butler, he's about the only man she never so much as contemplates taking to bed. Instead they have a rather lovely calm and placid friendship with zero sparks, and Phryne's true love is Lin Chung, though this in no way prevents her from sleeping with at least one other beautiful man per book. And I love Phryne/Jack in the show, they about set fire to the screen in every episode, but in the books, Phryne/Lin Chung is absolutely electric. I've enjoyed all the books in the series, but the latest one, Murder and Mendelssohn, is the Sherlock crossover and it is absolutely delightful.

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