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Originally Posted by HarryT
Just finished "Cocaine Blues", by Kerry Greenwood, which is the first book in the "Phryne Fisher" detective series. I found this to be mediocre at best, with (for me) far too much time devoted to minute and pointless descriptions of what people were wearing. I also found the behaviour of the protagonist to be unrealistic - casual sex is more the attitude of a 21st century young woman than one of the 1920s. Perhaps the book would appeal more to a female reader, but it's not my cup of tea at all. Disappointing.
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I enjoyed that one, perhaps the more for the unconventional attitude toward the social mores of the times displayed by the antagonist. And from the fact that this tale was situated within a time that came to be known as "the roaring twenties", I doubt she was the only young woman of the period who felt a bit more sexually liberated than did her female forebears.