Organza (October)

October 1929 seen through filmy organza, a body is found on the encaustic tiles. Suspects include coach, ballboy, flapper, and tennis heroine with deadly backhand of sheerest organza. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, his voice silken organza, interrogates dodgy journalists, sees through their organza defences. While, typically, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher reads the social fabric: motive, identity, desire, clue. She has an eye for prospective organza, even when her eyes are all for the well-suited policeman. A second body complicates things. The composed Miss Dorothy Williams unexpectedly makes her feelings transparent as best organza. I won’t give the story away.