Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan¹s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued a gorgeous Chinese, Lin Chung, and his grandmother, and is briefly mistaken for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre. But it¹s an unexpected evening as her night is again interrupted by a most bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne possibly find between the ridiculously entertaining plot of Ruddigore, the Chinese community of Little Bourke St or the actors treading the boards of His Majesty¹s Theatre? Drawn backstage and onstage, Phryne must solve an old murder and find a new murderer ­ and, of course, banish the theatre¹s ghost, who seems likely to kill again.
