Essie Davis
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Language
English
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Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. With her trademark wit, impeccable style, and trusty pearl-handled revolver, Phryne fights injustice on an international scale in this globe-trotting adventure. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne rescues a young Bedouin girl held captive after a village massacre and reunites her with her uncle at a stately English manor....
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
A séance to contact a soldier killed in World War I leads to two murders in Melbourne a decade after the war's end. Despite the claims of the spiritualist conducting the séance, Phryne prefers to rely on the memories of three army veterans to find out what really happened on the battlefield in France.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 13
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English
Description
Phryne and company head to a chalet to celebrate "Christmas in July," but when they get there they find one of the residents dead, electrocuted while hanging festive lights. Two other deaths quickly follow, though not before Jack and Constable Collins arrive on the scene and Phryne begins to figure out which of the chalet's residents might be the next victim.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 9
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English
Description
The on-set death of the leading man jeopardizes the future of The Bride of Babylon, an Australian silent movie trying to fend off competition from Hollywood. As an investor in the film, Phryne is called in to investigate. When the director is also killed, Phryne decides to direct the proceedings herself.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 7
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English
Description
A pioneering female racing driver dies after her car is tampered with, and the race against a rival men's team looks set to be abandoned. When it emerges that she was strangled after the accident, Phryne decides to get behind the wheel of the investigation into the woman's death.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 3
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English
Description
Phryne begins looking into a burglary at the home of an establishment family fallen on hard times-but ends up investigating three murders. Although a local ring of smugglers seems implicated in the crimes, Phryne finds the family has more than a few secrets that it's desperate to keep hidden.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
A bookkeeper and budding announcer at a city radio station is found choked to death, the latest in a succession of incidents threatening to put new stations out of business. In a reversal of roles, by the time Phryne is brought in to investigate, Jack has already established himself as an undercover newsreader.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 12
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English
Description
When the body of a drowned and bound young woman is traced to a nuns' home for "wayward girls," the new chief commissioner-stressing the need for diplomacy in dealing with the church-takes Jack off the case. It's left to Phryne to expose the goings-on behind the convent walls.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Phryne goes for a fitting at an exclusive fashion salon and finds that another customer has been killed with her own hairpin. It's the latest in a series of disasters for the salon, but Phryne finds that while haute couture is facing hard times, another profit-making enterprise is on the rise.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 10
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English
Description
A vineyard owner hires Phryne to look into a suspicious death, but by the time she gets to the remote town, he's dead, too. The locals are hostile to her inquiries, especially the town's police sergeant, and Phryne calls a certain detective inspector from Melbourne for help.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Jack's ex-father-in-law-the deputy commissioner of police-is implicated in the murder of a prostitute, and Jack and Phryne combine their efforts to get to the bottom of the case. While Jack plays it by the book, Phryne goes undercover as a showgirl at a gentleman's club, where her fan dance starts to ruffle feathers.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 4
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English
Description
The police try to channel an outbreak of gang warfare into the boxing ring, but when someone stabs a gang member to death, Phryne and Jack get embroiled in the dangerous world of fight-rigging and illegal betting. Constable Collins goes a step further, pulling on a pair of gloves and stepping into the ring himself.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 8
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English
Description
Medical students assembled for an anatomy lecture are shocked to find the cadaver they expected is actually the fresh corpse of one of their professors. The mystery deepens after a valuable 16th-century manuscript belonging to the professor vanishes. Now estranged, Phryne and Jack step around each other as they investigate.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 6
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English
Description
The captain of a local football team is found hanged before a game against the crosstown rivals, who appear to be the likely suspects. However, Phryne and Jack find evidence that the man may have killed himself and have to figure out why someone might want to make a suicide look like a murder.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
Phryne joins the circus to investigate a murder the police have little chance of solving-and takes a journey into a dark part of her own past. When Phryne gets some unexpected news, she fears the case closest to her heart may now be closed forever.
Author
Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Invited to a relative's home where a murder has just occurred, Phryne soon finds herself in a world of drug smuggling and illegal abortion. As she sets about solving the first crime, she ends up getting embroiled in the other two.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
A concierge is stabbed and pushed to his death from the rooftop of the Grand Hotel, an establishment that was once a part of Melbourne high society but has now fallen on hard times. Jack calls Phryne in on the case, which looks like a robbery gone wrong until a strange connection to the Fisher household emerges.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Two deaths onstage at a Gilbert and Sullivan show are followed by an attempt on Phryne's life and, eventually, a new romance in Chinatown. At first Phryne thinks the killings are connected with the modern-day opium trade, but soon she turns her attentions to explanations from the past.
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Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
A female night-shift worker dies when her hair gets caught in the factory machinery. The police suspect accidental death, but Phryne smells foul play and Dot goes undercover to get at the truth.