Phryne Fisher needs a rest. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast, where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists. What is the mysterious Madame Selavey hiding? n nDot unfolded the note. He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher...Ill leave out a bit...their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable. Phryne got the door open at last. She stepped into the hall. I think he was mistaken about that, she commented.n nTraveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza with her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. Shed promised everyone a nice holiday by the sea with absolutely no murders, but when they arrive at their rented accommodation that doesnt seem likely at all.n nAn empty house, a gang of teenage louts, a fisherboy saved, and a missing butler and his wife seem to lead inexorably toward a hunt for buried treasure by the sea. Phryne knows to what depths people will sink for greed, but with a glass of champagne in one hand and a pearl-handled Beretta in the other, no one is getting past her.n