Urn Burial
by Kerry Greenwood (Penguin, 1996)
audiobook read by Stephanie Daniel (Bolinda, 2011)
Greenwood’s take on Golden Age manor-house murder mysteries plays merry with tropes. Phryne, while inscrutably piecing together the various puzzles, does very little with the revelations thus garnered, instead being swept along towards the denouement. Miss Mary Mead is a nice touch.
