The BEST episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Every episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries!

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood. Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life.

Last Updated: 1/31/2024Network: ABC (AU)Status: Ended
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Queen of the Flowers
star
8.31
208 votes

#1 - Queen of the Flowers

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/2012

The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher 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 mother unexpectedly resurfaces and Phryne has to face her fears about losing her ward.

Directors: Clayton Jacobson
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The Blood of Juana the Mad
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8.27
182 votes

#2 - The Blood of Juana the Mad

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/2013

Now estranged, Phryne and Jack step around each other to investigate a murder and the disappearance of a valuable manuscript.

Directors: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: John Banas
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Ruddy Gore
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8.27
244 votes

#3 - Ruddy Gore

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2012

At a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets the gorgeous Lin Chung who has rescued the theatre’s leading man from some thugs in a dark alley in Chinatown. The evening continues on unexpectedly with a bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne find between the Chinese community of Little Bourke St, the illicit opium trade and the actors treading the boards of His Majesty’s Theatre? Phryne must solve an old murder, find a new murderer, and banish the theatre's ghost who seems likely to kill again.

Directors: David Caesar
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Murder in Montparnasse
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8.25
261 votes

#4 - Murder in Montparnasse

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/2012

As a young woman in Paris after the war, Phryne posed for the famous artist Pierre Sarcelle. Now, 10 years later, Sarcelle’s widow arrives in Melbourne asking for her late husband’s paintings. When she 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 is the man who gives her the courage to confront her past.

Directors: Clayton Jacobson
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Murder a la Mode
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8.15
185 votes

#5 - Murder a la Mode

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/2013

When Phryne arrives at the exclusive fashion house of Madame Fleuri for a fitting, she unexpectedly finds herself amidst a crime scene, and everyone present is a suspect!

Directors: Sian Davies
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Murder in the Dark
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8.14
196 votes

#6 - Murder in the Dark

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/11/2012

Phryne’s cousins and Aunt Prudence’s 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 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.

Directors: Daina Reid
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Deadweight
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8.13
176 votes

#7 - Deadweight

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/2013

When a gang leader is found dead outside a travelling boxing tent, Phryne's investigation leads her into the dangerous but thrilling world of fight rigging and tribal payback.

Directors: Declan Eames
Writer: John Banas
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The Green Mill Murder
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8.10
309 votes

#8 - The Green Mill Murder

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2012

Phryne, gorgeous in her sparkling evening gown, had thought she would dance the night away at the hottest dancehall in town, the Green Mill. That was before death spoiled the evening. In jazz-mad 1920s Melbourne, Phryne finds there are hidden perils lurking in the smoky shadows – like a mystery man from her past – and it takes all her ingenuity, and her rusty flying skills, to unravel the trail of blackmail and murder.

Directors: Kate Dennis
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King Memses' Curse
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8.09
191 votes

#9 - King Memses' Curse

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/2012

Murdoch Foyle is at large and has been connected with the mysterious death of Albert Monkton, antique dealer. In investigating the murder, Phryne 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.

Directors: Daina Reid
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Framed for Murder
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8.08
179 votes

#10 - Framed for Murder

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/2013

Phryne journeys into the twilight world of silent movies. When a lead actor and a director are murdered, Phryne steps in to solve the crime and save the production.

Directors: Peter Andrikidis
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Unnatural Habits
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8.08
146 votes

#11 - Unnatural Habits

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/2013

The gothic world of a halfway house for pregnant & wayward girls sets the scene for the death of a teenager. Phryne & Jack realise the threads of the crime lead closer to home than they suspected.

Directors: Tony Tilse
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Murder on the Ballarat Train
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8.06
399 votes

#12 - Murder on the Ballarat Train

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2012

The glamorous Phryne Fisher, accompanied by her maid Dot, 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. Her train trip 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.

Directors: Kate Dennis
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Dead Air
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8.03
150 votes

#13 - Dead Air

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/2013

There's a new wireless in the Fisher household, but there's a murder on the airwaves. Dot suffers the realisation that she doesn't want to relinquish working for Miss Fisher when she marries.

Directors: Catherine Millar
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Game, Set & Murder
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8.02
205 votes

#14 - Game, Set & Murder

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2015

When Phryne hosts a tennis tournament to raise money for female tennis players, the practice partner of a rising star is fatally bitten by a spider, and a murder investigation reveals Phryne's hidden fear.

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Raisins and Almonds
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8.00
274 votes

#15 - Raisins and Almonds

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2012

When a young man is found dead in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, Phryne Fisher 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, Cec, Dot, Dr Mac and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson. Ultimately, though, it’s her stealth and wit that solve the crime – and all for the price of a song...

Directors: David Caesar
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Death & Hysteria
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7.98
214 votes

#16 - Death & Hysteria

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/5/2015

When Phryne's Aunt Prudence opens her home to psychiatrist and natural healer, Hayden Samuels, to conduct his sanatorium for 'hysterical' women, Phryne takes on more than she bargained for.

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Death on the Vine
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7.97
145 votes

#17 - Death on the Vine

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/2013

When Phryne arrives at an idyllic vineyard to investigate a suspicious death, hostile townsfolk do everything they can to drive her out of town, and Hugh prepares for a perfect proposal.

Directors: Catherine Millar
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Murder Under the Mistletoe
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7.97
154 votes

#18 - Murder Under the Mistletoe

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/2013

Phryne, Dot and Dr Mac happily accompany Aunt Prudence to a picturesque chalet to celebrate a white Christmas in July. The party arrives to find one of the residents dead – electrocuted while hanging festive lights. No more suspicious than the usual Miss Fisher investigation, until the body count starts to rapidly rise…

Directors: Tony Tilse
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Death at Victoria Docks
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7.95
321 votes

#19 - Death at Victoria Docks

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2012

A young man with a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's 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. Her investigations lead her into the arms of the delicious yet dangerous anarchist, Peter the Painter.

Directors: Tony Tilse
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Blood & Circuses
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7.94
196 votes

#20 - Blood & Circuses

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/2012

The carnival is in town. Innocent fun turns to horror when one of the sideshow acts is murdered. Phryne poses as the magician’s assistant, Fern, to investigate. The heady atmosphere of the carnival takes Phryne on a bittersweet trip down memory lane – to the days when she and her sister, Janey, would sneak into the big top, until one night Janey disappeared. Her pain is reignited when she discovers that Murdoch Foyle – the man accused of murdering her sister – was the mastermind behind an elaborate prison escape plan. Any chance of discovering the truth about her sister’s fate is dashed though, when she learns that Foyle has died and been cremated.

Directors: Emma Freeman
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Away with the Fairies
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7.94
278 votes

#21 - Away with the Fairies

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2012

Phryne 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 – whose arranged marriage has stalled in a mire of family politics and intrigue.

Directors: Emma Freeman
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Death by Miss Adventure
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7.93
203 votes

#22 - Death by Miss Adventure

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/2012

Phryne 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, 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.

Directors: Daina Reid
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Blood at the Wheel
star
7.89
157 votes

#23 - Blood at the Wheel

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/2013

When the driver of the ladies' motorcar rally team is found dead in her roadster, Phryne is up in arms struggling to convince Jack that her friend's death was no accident.

Directors: Sian Davies
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Cocaine Blues
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7.88
437 votes

#24 - Cocaine Blues

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/2012

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 the handsome Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse. Her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish Bath Palace off Little Lonsdale Street.

Directors: Tony Tilse
Writer: Deborah Cox
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Death Do Us Part
star
7.86
209 votes

#25 - Death Do Us Part

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2015

When a prize-winning scientist is found murdered on the same night the man intent on murdering Henry Fisher escapes police custody, Phryne must put all misgivings aside to protect her father.

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