A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
Cast:Essie Davis , Nathan Page , Hugo Johnstone-Burt , Ashleigh Cummings , Richard Bligh , Travis McMahon , Anthony J. Sharpe , Tammy Macintosh , Miriam Margolyes , Ruby Rees , Nicholas Bell , Lucia Emmerichs , Zoe Gousmett , Pip Miller , Neil Melville , Daniel Frederiksen , Dee Smart , Dennis Coard
Modernly independent yet fashionable woman Phryne Fisher comes to late 1920s Melbourne, Australia, where she soon finds murder and illegal activity mysteries to unravel.
A disagreeable woman vanishes from a moving train, later found slain, with a scared girl in possession of her jewelry. Miss Fisher aims to help, much to Insp. Robinson's professional annoyance.
Miss Fisher's plans to enjoy a night in a Jazz club are interrupted by a puzzling crime when a man collapses suddenly on the dance floor, murdered.
Summoned to investigate a missing school girl, Phryne runs afoul of social anarchists at odds during a dock workers' strike.
Phryne Fisher is on the scene when a young man is found dead in a bookshop. Miss Fisher is willing to bet her hat that it is a case of poisoning. Phryne investigates murder, alchemy, and Zionism alongside Detective Inspector Jack Robinson.
An outing to the theater as Dot's birthday present turns into a case involving murder, addiction, hatred and the supposed ghost of a long dead suicidal actress.
Phryne's post-war Parisian past returns when a reopened case over the murder of a famous painter targets Bert and two fellow war veterans for death.
Death by poison among a women's magazine staff has Phryne and friends looking into more than unhappy mates of readers seeking advice.
Among the troubled, disadvantaged girls Phryne takes under her wing, one drowns - and it's murder.
Dr Mac brings a woman's gruesome factory death to Phryne's attention, not disclosing her own special relationship to the woman.
Miss Fisher joins the circus to investigate the homicide of a performer whose body was staged for a shocking public reveal.
Two days prior to Phryne's licentious cousin's engagement party, Aunt P. finds her teenage chambermaid floating dead in the swimming pool, but the party goes on, nonetheless.
With all her friends in mortal danger, Phryne finds herself in a race to understand Murdoch Foyle's objective in toying with her.