Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring
Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
"As usual, Greenwood populates the novel with an assortment of offbeat
characters...and Phryne has plenty of opportunities to unleash her acid
tongue and apply her razor-sharp wit." --Booklist
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929,
has been engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a
Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He had some
strange friends--a Balkan adventuress, a dilettante with a penchant for
antiquities, a Classics professor, a medium, and a mysterious supplier
who arrives after dark on a motorbike. Simultaneously, she is asked to
discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to
the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.
With the help of her sister Beth, the cab drivers Bert and Cec, and even
her two adoptive daughters, Phryne follows eerie leads that bring her
face-to-face with the conquest of Jerusalem by General Allenby and the
Australian Light Horse, kif smokers, spirit guides, pirate treasure
maps, and ghosts.