Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring
Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
It's 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling
death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so,
Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim
and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing
first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her
lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to
China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family,
followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.