Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012

4.9

20 reviews

Eligible

Series 3 episodes (8)

1 Death Defying Feats

5/8/15

A sabotaged guillotine leaves a magician’s assistant dead onstage and the magician confessing to murder—not of his assistant, but of his wife 10 years earlier. Phryne enters a world of deception and illusion and decides that to solve the crime, she needs to get in on the act.

2 Murder and The Maiden

5/15/15

The body of an unidentified woman is found outside the perimeter of a Royal Australian Air Force base, and an airman is missing. Is there a connection? Phryne finds one when she traces the dead woman to a group of Russian leftists and a deadly conflict between the airmen and the base’s unionized workers.

3 Murder and The Mozzarella

5/22/15

The strangling of an old lady in her restaurant’s kitchen signals the latest flare-up in a feud against a rival Italian eatery. But with organized-crime involvement and grudges stretching back to the old country, this is no ordinary food fight.

4 Blood and Money

5/29/15

When street urchins from a local gang begin to disappear from a poor neighborhood of Melbourne, suspicion falls on a hospital employee who has been using them in his petty crime operation. Cuts on two dead boys suggest they were involved in knife fights, until Phryne and Jack realize there was a darker purpose to the killings.

5 Death and Hysteria

6/5/15

One of the patients in a controversial sanatorium for women is electrocuted in her room. Though it could have been a tragic accident, Phryne has other ideas. What kind of appliance was the woman plugging into the electrical outlet—and where is the appliance now?

6 Death at the Grand

6/12/15

A concierge is stabbed and pushed to his death from the rooftop of the Grand Hotel, an establishment that was once a part of Melbourne high society but has now fallen on hard times. Jack calls Phryne in on the case, which looks like a robbery gone wrong until a strange connection to the Fisher household emerges.

7 Game, Set & Murder

6/19/15

At a female tennis tournament hosted by Phryne, one of the competitors dies from a spider bite before she even steps onto the court. When it emerges that the spider had been deliberately placed in the woman’s empty tennis shoe, it becomes clear that someone has not just a determination to win, but a willingness to kill.

8 Death Do Us Part

6/26/15

A prize-winning scientist is murdered on the grounds of the Royal Observatory—and a killer who has traveled halfway around the world catches up with a member of the Fisher family. Phryne must save a life and help restore an old marriage, even as she celebrates a new one.

About this show

Based on the novels by Kerry Greenwood. Seen on public television. In1920s Melbourne, the Honorable Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, Girl with a Pearl Earring) is a thoroughly modern woman operating in a mostly male world. The glamorous “lady detective” goes about her work with a pistol close at hand—and, more often than not, a male admirer even closer. To the dismay of Detective Inspector Jack Robinson (Nathan Page, The Secret Life of Us), Phryne’s investigations take her through back alleys, jazz clubs, and shady neighborhoods. Ignoring the dangers all around her, she glides through life determined to enjoy every moment. But beneath her devil-may-care attitude, Phryne hides ghosts from the past that continue to haunt her. Gorgeously costumed and evocatively shot, MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES also stars Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Cloudstreet), Ashleigh Cummings (Tomorrow, When the War Began), Miriam Margolyes (Little Dorrit), and Nicholas Bell (Shine). Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings) guest stars.

Ratings and reviews

4.9

20 reviews

Dawn Cochrane

June 16, 2022

Absolutely love this show, I've seen all the episodes and was so sorry to see it end. Without a doubt, this is the best female detective show ever produced. It's too bad they don't plan to bring it back with it picking up when she lands her plane in England. Will Jack follow her? What was the mystery that caused to set out in her little plane from Australia to England? Will she make it? There's so much more story to be told.

Jennifer Bruce

March 10, 2019

Terrific Australian Mystery program. First rate.

Trudy Davis

June 10, 2017

I absolutely love the 20s awesome job guys

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