The Honorable Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, Girl with a Pearl Earring) is a thoroughly modern woman of the late 1920s 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.
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.
In episode one – Cocaine Blues – The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher disembarks the Orient at Victoria Dock, returning to Melbourne after years abroad. Almost as soon as she checks into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned husbands, cocaine smuggling rings and illegal abortionists – not to mention erotic encounters with the handsome Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse. Her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish Bath Palace off Little Lonsdale Street.
- Premieres Saturday, January 9. 8:00 p.m.
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
Episode 1: Cocaine Blues: Invited to a relative’s home where a murder has just occurred, Phryne soon finds herself in a world of drug smuggling and illegal abortion.
Episode 2: Murder on the Ballarat Train: On a train ride to the country, Phryne saves the life of a fellow passenger—but can’t prevent the death of the young woman’s mother.
Episode 3: The Green Mill Murder: Phryne goes out for a night of dancing at Melbourne’s top club, but the fun comes to an end after one of the patrons is stabbed to death.
Episode 4: Death at Victoria Dock: The shooting death of a Latvian anarchist sets Phryne off in pursuit of the dead man’s fiancée.
Episode 5: Raisins and Almonds: Phryne investigates a murder in Melbourne’s Jewish community, where the motives are masked by politics, romance, and religion.
Episode 6: Ruddy Gore: Two deaths onstage at a Gilbert and Sullivan show are followed by an attempt on Phryne’s life and, eventually, a new romance in Chinatown.
Episode 7: Murder in Montparnasse: The widow of a French painter visits Melbourne, reawakening in Phryne memories of her time in Paris after the Great War.
Episode 8: Away with the Fairies: When a magazine columnist dies under mysterious circumstances, Phryne finds petty jealousies, deception, and, perhaps, a motive for murder among the dead woman’s colleagues.
Episode 9: Queen of the Flowers: A leisurely walk along the beach leads to Phryne’s newest case after the body of a young woman washes ashore.
Episode 10: Death by Miss Adventure: A female night-shift worker dies when her hair gets caught in the factory machinery.
Episode 11: Blood and Circuses: Phryne joins the circus to investigate a murder the police have little chance of solving—and takes a journey into a dark part of her own past.
Episode 12: Murder in the Dark: Suspicion falls on the entire household when a body is found in the pool at Phryne’s aunt’s house on the eve of a lavish party.
Episode 13: King Memses’ Curse: With a madman on the run, Phryne throws caution to the wind in order to find answers she has been seeking since childhood.
Cast Members
Essie Davis
Nathan Page
Hugo Johnstone-Burt
Ashleigh Cummings
Miriam Margolyes
Nicholas Bell
