Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012 • PBS
4.6
429 reviews
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Series 2 episodes (13)

1 Murder Most Scandalous
9/6/13
Jack’s ex-father-in-law—the deputy commissioner of police—is implicated in the murder of a prostitute, and Jack and Phryne combine their efforts to get to the bottom of the case. While Jack plays it by the book, Phryne goes undercover as a showgirl at a gentleman’s club, where her fan dance starts to ruffle feathers.
2 Death Comes Knocking
9/13/13
A séance to contact a soldier killed in World War I leads to two murders in Melbourne a decade after the war’s end. Despite the claims of the spiritualist conducting the séance, Phryne prefers to rely on the memories of three army veterans to find out what really happened on the battlefield in France.
3 Dead Man’s Chest
9/20/13
Phryne begins looking into a burglary at the home of an establishment family fallen on hard times—but ends up investigating three murders. Although a local ring of smugglers seems implicated in the crimes, Phryne finds the family has more than a few secrets that it’s desperate to keep hidden.
4 Deadweight
9/29/13
The police try to channel an outbreak of gang warfare into the boxing ring, but when someone stabs a gang member to death, Phryne and Jack get embroiled in the dangerous world of fight-rigging and illegal betting. Constable Collins goes a step further, pulling on a pair of gloves and stepping into the ring himself.
5 Murder a la Mode
10/4/13
Phryne goes for a fitting at an exclusive fashion salon and finds that another customer has been killed with her own hairpin. It’s the latest in a series of disasters for the salon, but Phryne finds that while haute couture is facing hard times, another profit-making enterprise is on the rise.
6 Marked for Murder
10/11/13
The captain of a local football team is found hanged before a game against the crosstown rivals, who appear to be the likely suspects. However, Phryne and Jack find evidence that the man may have killed himself and have to figure out why someone might want to make a suicide look like a murder.
7 Blood at the Wheel
10/18/13
A pioneering female racing driver dies after her car is tampered with, and the race against a rival men's team looks set to be abandoned. When it emerges that she was strangled after the accident, Phryne decides to get behind the wheel of the investigation into the woman's death.
8 The Blood of Juana the Mad
10/25/13
Medical students assembled for an anatomy lecture are shocked to find the cadaver they expected is actually the fresh corpse of one of their professors. The mystery deepens after a valuable 16th-century manuscript belonging to the professor vanishes. Now estranged, Phryne and Jack step around each other as they investigate.
9 Framed for Murder
11/1/13
The on-set death of the leading man jeopardizes the future of The Bride of Babylon, an Australian silent movie trying to fend off competition from Hollywood. As an investor in the film, Phryne is called in to investigate. When the director is also killed, Phryne decides to direct the proceedings herself.
10 Death on the Vine
11/8/13
A vineyard owner hires Phryne to look into a suspicious death, but by the time she gets to the remote town, he’s dead, too. The locals are hostile to her inquiries, especially the town’s police sergeant, and Phryne calls a certain detective inspector from Melbourne for help.
11 Dead Air
11/15/13
A bookkeeper and budding announcer at a city radio station is found choked to death, the latest in a succession of incidents threatening to put new stations out of business. In a reversal of roles, by the time Phryne is brought in to investigate, Jack has already established himself as an undercover newsreader.
12 Unnatural Habits
11/22/13
When the body of a drowned and bound young woman is traced to a nuns’ home for “wayward girls,” the new chief commissioner—stressing the need for diplomacy in dealing with the church—takes Jack off the case. It’s left to Phryne to expose the goings-on behind the convent walls.
13 Murder Under the Mistletoe
11/22/13
Phryne and company head to a chalet to celebrate “Christmas in July,” but when they get there they find one of the residents dead, electrocuted while hanging festive lights. Two other deaths quickly follow, though not before Jack and Constable Collins arrive on the scene and Phryne begins to figure out which of the chalet’s residents might be the next victim.

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.

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4.6
429 reviews
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October 15, 2018
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Amber D
September 18, 2019
Absolutely one of my favorites that was cut too short for its time. Great cast chemistry great costuming and background, great script. An absolute brilliant show that I can never get over and watch quite often. Love it!
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Luther Geisler
October 2, 2019
My wife and I love it!!! We are watching all seasons for the third time. A Friday night treat at the end of the week. I hate they took it off Netflix. I have to buy the episodes now.
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