Quotes About Kerry Greenwood

I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.

Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.

If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.

Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?

You broke the window, Bobby, and you pinched the necklace. Do you want to confess or shall I tell you how you did it?

Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23.

Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.