Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring
Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
"Phryne's fans get everything they could possibly want from this
installment in the long-running and ever more popular series: a
fast-talking, tough heroine; an engaging cast of supporting players; a
couple of really nifty mysteries; and plenty of fun." --Booklist
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney
(where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches,
dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts
Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a
lifetime, and she's not afraid to use it.
When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely
respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children
to the neglectful care of a resentful husband. What has become of Joan,
who would never leave her babies? Surely, she hasn't run away with a
lover, as gossip suggests?
Then while Phryne is visiting the university, the very pretty Joss and
Clarence ask her to find out who has broken into the Dean's safe and
stolen a number of things, including the Dean's wife's garnets and an
irreplaceable illuminated book called the Hours of Juana the Mad. An
innocent student has been blamed.
So Phryne girds up her loins, loads her pearl-handled .32 Beretta, and
sallies forth to find mayhem, murder, black magic, and perhaps a really
good cocktail before more crime erupts in Sydney.
