Modernly independent yet fashionable woman Phryne Fisher comes to late 1920s Melbourne, Australia, where she soon finds murder and illegal activity mysteries to unravel.

A disagreeable woman vanishes from a moving train, later found slain, with a scared girl in possession of her jewelry. Miss Fisher aims to help, much to Insp. Robinson's professional annoyance.

Miss Fisher's plans to enjoy a night in a Jazz club are interrupted by a puzzling crime when a man collapses suddenly on the dance floor, murdered.

Summoned to investigate a missing school girl, Phryne runs afoul of social anarchists at odds during a dock workers' strike.

Phryne Fisher is on the scene when a young man is found dead in a bookshop. Miss Fisher is willing to bet her hat that it is a case of poisoning. Phryne investigates murder, alchemy, and Zionism alongside Detective Inspector Jack Robinson.

An outing to the theater as Dot's birthday present turns into a case involving murder, addiction, hatred and the supposed ghost of a long dead suicidal actress.

Phryne's post-war Parisian past returns when a reopened case over the murder of a famous painter targets Bert and two fellow war veterans for death.

Death by poison among a women's magazine staff has Phryne and friends looking into more than unhappy mates of readers seeking advice.

Among the troubled, disadvantaged girls Phryne takes under her wing, one drowns - and it's murder.

Dr Mac brings a woman's gruesome factory death to Phryne's attention, not disclosing her own special relationship to the woman.

Miss Fisher joins the circus to investigate the homicide of a performer whose body was staged for a shocking public reveal.

Two days prior to Phryne's licentious cousin's engagement party, Aunt P. finds her teenage chambermaid floating dead in the swimming pool, but the party goes on, nonetheless.