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Kerry Greenwood Biography

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Kerry Greenwood is an Australian author known for her detective novels. Born on June 17, 1954, she is particularly famous for her Phoebe McAllister detective series.

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Book:Forbidden Fruit

Source: Forbidden Fruit

“In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.”

Aesthetics Babies Looking Drunk

Book:Cocaine Blues

Source: Cocaine Blues

“Another object lesson of why humans should have stayed in trees, where they could not behave in such an idiotic way. Or possibly we should never have emerged from the sea. Evolution, Phryne sometimes thought, had a long way to go before the Homo became even close to Sapiens.”

Human Behavior Humans And Evolution Phryne Fisher

Book:Murder on a Midsummer Night

Source: Murder on a Midsummer Night

“It's a good idea, generally, not to offend women with that shade of Titian hair,' mused Phryne.”

Short Stories Favorite Characters Red Heads

Book:The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions

Source: The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions

“Truth came home one day, naked and wounded, having been beaten and cursed by the people who did not wish to hear, while his brother Falsehood went dressed in the brightest garments and feasted with every household. “What shall I do?” cried Truth to the gods. “No man wishes to hear me and all beat me and throw things at me; look, I am covered with dung.” “You are naked” said the goddess Maat, sympathetically. “No naked one can command respect. Therefore take these robes and you will walk without fear and all men will sit at your feet to hear your stories.” And she dressed Truth in Fable’s garments, and he was welcome at every house.”

Truth Falsehood Fable Egyptian Mythology Maat

Book:Out of the Black Land

Source: Out of the Black Land

“The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.”

Heaven Bar

Book:Raisins and Almonds

Source: Raisins and Almonds

“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”

Ifs Writing Book Would Be Saws Middle Wake Up Muse Old Woman Spectacles Buns Growling

Author:Kerry Greenwood

“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”

Way Wells Company Months Habit Husband Six Ideals Bored Celebration Six Months Sailor Annoyed

Book:Queen of the Flowers

Source: Queen of the Flowers

“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”

Doe Concealing

Author:Kerry Greenwood

“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”

Two Facts Certain Levels Planets Theory Accounts Kitchen Complexity Orbit Gadgets Melons Ballers

Author:Kerry Greenwood

“And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.”

Needs Said Stills Soul Helping Might Causes Poor Grief Wise Mines Devil Angel Concerned Sight Praise Islands Thirty Grandmother Wise Women Praise God

Book:Cocaine Blues

Source: Cocaine Blues

About the Author

Born: June 17, 1954
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

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Cocaine BluesRelated source material

Forbidden FruitRelated source material

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