Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

8:30pm – Friday, May 18 on ABC1

Don’t miss tonight’s final, gripping episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

Murdoch Foyle (Nicholas Bell) is at large and has been connected with the mysterious death of Albert Monkton (Nick Backstrom), antique dealer. In investigating the murder, Phryne (Essie Davis) discovers Murdoch Foyle’s involvement in a bizarre reincarnation cult, inspired by Ancient Egypt.

Phryne’s hunt for the madman leads her on a disturbing trail of death and despair before she realises her own significance in Foyle’s grand plan. Can she overcome her nemesis and finally solve the mystery regarding the fate of her sister, Janey, or will her own death be the price she has to pay to discover the truth.

Guest stars Matt Day, Nicole Nabout, John Arnold, Nick Backstrom

8:30pm – Friday, May 11 on ABC1

Phryne’s (Essie Davis) cousins and Aunt Prudence’s (Miriam Margolyes) entire household come under suspicion when a young girl is found drowned in her aunt’s fountain on the eve of a lavish fancy dress party.

Phryne and her aunt work together to investigate – until Phryne begins to doubt her own detecting skills. Was Murdoch Foyle (Nicholas Bell) really the man responsible for her sister’s death or was it someone much closer to Phryne – someone who was also there the day Janey disappeared from the circus all those years ago.

When Foyle finally shows his hand, Phryne recovers her confidence – only to have it replaced by terror when she fears Foyle now has Jane in his sights.

Guest stars Felix Williamson, Kate Jenkinson, John Lloyd Fillingham

8:30pm – Friday, April 20 on ABC1

The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) has been chosen to refine a group of delinquent flower maidens for the annual flower parade.

When the body of one of her charges washes up on the beach, though, she begins to question the worth of table manners and dancing lessons.

In the midst of her investigation, Jane’s (Ruby Rees-Wemyss) mother unexpectedly resurfaces and Phryne has to face her fears about losing her ward.

Guest stars Terry Norris, Danielle Cormack, Andrew S Gilbert, Eva Lazzaro

8:30pm – Friday, April 27 on ABC1

Phryne (Essie Davis) investigates the death of a young female worker in a factory ‘accident’ and soon learns that the woman’s death might not be the misadventure the police think it is.

Faced with a wall of secrecy and lies, Phryne sends her trusty maid, Dot (Ashleigh Cummings), undercover into the factory to investigate. When a second suspicious death occurs, Phryne fights desperately to save one of her closest friends from the gallows.

Guest stars; Alison Whyte, Caroline Brazier, Andrew Blackman, Neil Pigot

8:30pm – Friday, April 13 on ABC1

On tonight’s episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Phryne (Essie Davis) enters the world of publishing when she investigates the puzzling death of a magazine columnist and author of fairy stories.

To get to the truth, she must unearth the deceptions and rampant rivalries of the magazine’s thoroughly modern working women – and dig into the past of their token male employee. Meanwhile, Phryne rekindles her affair with the sensuous Lin Chung (Philippe Sung) – whose arranged marriage has stalled in a mire of family politics and intrigue.

Guest stars Anna McGahan, Roz Hammond, Deborah Kennedy, Jim Russell.

8:30pm – Friday, April 6 on ABC1

As a young woman in Paris after the war, Phryne (Essie Davis) posed for the famous artist Pierre Sarcelle (Nick Carrafa). Now, 10 years later, Sarcelle’s widow (Linda Cropper) arrives in Melbourne asking for her late husband’s paintings.

When the widow suddenly disappears, Phryne discovers the connection between Mme Sarcelle and the death of an Australian war veteran who witnessed the ‘accidental’ death of Sarcelle at Montparnasse train station. As Phryne delves into this investigation, she remembers her own days in Paris and her first love. The two worlds collide as Phryne tracks down the murderer – but Jack (Nathan Page) is the man who gives her the courage to confront her past.

Guest stars Peter O’Brien, Vince Colosimo, Linda Cropper, Nick Carrafa

8:30pm – Friday, March 23 on ABC1

When a young man is found dead in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) is plunged into the diverse worlds of Jewish politics, alchemy and poison.

She works her way through the mystery with help from the old faithfuls – Bert (Travis McMahon), Cec (Anthony Sharpe), Dot (Ashleigh Cummings), Dr Mac (Tammy McIntosh) and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson (Nathan Page). Ultimately, though, it’s her stealth and wit that solve the crime – and all for the price of a song…

Guest stars: Kat Stewart, Tim Draxl, Brian Lipson, Adam Schmerl

8:30pm – Friday, March 16 on ABC1

On tonight’s episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, a young man with a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne’s (Essie Davis) arms. Sadly, it’s not another scene of glorious seduction. This time it’s murder.

Outraged by this brutal slaughter, Phryne promises to find out who is responsible. But Phryne doesn’t yet know how deeply into the mire she’ll have to go – bank robbery, anarchists and the kidnap of her beloved maid Dot (Ashleigh Cummings). Her investigations lead her into the arms of the delicious yet dangerous anarchist, Peter the Painter (Jack Finsterer).

Guest stars Jack Finsterer, Talia Zucker, Robert Grubb, Renai Caruso, Penne Hackforth-Jones

8:30pm – Friday, March 2 on ABC1

The glamorous Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis), accompanied by her maid Dot (Ashleigh Cummings), decides to travel to the country by train to collect her new Hispano-Suiza motor car.

The charm of rail travel soon evaporates though, when Phryne unexpectedly has to use her trusty pearl-handled pistol to save a young woman’s life and solve the disappearance of her fellow passenger’s mother.

When her train trip is derailed by a gruesome murder, Phryne speeds home in her Hispano-Suiza to her new abode in St Kilda where she works through the clues until she discovers her unassuming murderer.

8:30pm – Friday, February 24 on ABC1

Get ready to immerse yourself in the opulent, exciting world of Australia’s leading lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis), in ABC1′s new 13-part drama series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Phryne (pronounced Fry-nee) is a glamorous and thoroughly modern woman of the 1920s. Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.

After many years abroad, Phryne returns to Melbourne, in part to start a new life in her home town, but to also ensure that Murdoch Foyle (Nicholas Bell), the man thought to be responsible for her younger sister’s mysterious disappearance, never gets out of jail. But before her very proper Aunt Prudence (Miriam Margolyes), a well-known society matriarch, can drag Phryne off to attend her first soiree, Phryne finds herself embroiled in a murder.

She befriends the most unlikely of murder suspects – an innocent Catholic girl, Dot Williams (Ashleigh Cummings), who over time becomes one of Phryne’s closest companions. With Dot’s natural intelligence in all things domestic and catholic she is often an unexpected asset in Phryne’s murder investigations.

From illegal abortions to union disputes, exploited workers and missing girls, Phryne finds justice for those who can’t help themselves.

As she delves deeper into the murky world of murder, Phryne crosses paths with the local constabulary, befriending the handsome Detective Inspector Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) and his trusting deputy Constable Hugh Collins (Hugo Johnstone-Burt). Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life and along the way she unlocks the truth of her own dark history.

In the first episode, 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 a handsome Russian dancer. Her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish Bath Palace off Little Lonsdale Street.

The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher began life in 1989 as the daring lady detective protagonist of a series of 18 crime books written by Australian author, Kerry Greenwood.