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The Best Episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Every episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries!

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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:ABC TV

Best Episodes Summary

"Unnatural Habits" is the best rated episode of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries". It scored 8.4/10 based on 425 votes. Directed by Tony Tilse and written by Ysabelle Dean, it aired on 11/22/2013. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Murder in the Dark".

  • Unnatural Habits
    8.4/10425 votes
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    #1 - 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.

    Director: Tony Tilse

    Writer: Ysabelle Dean

  • Murder in the Dark
    8.3/10482 votes
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    #2 - 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.

    Director: Daina Reid

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Do Us Part
    8.3/10416 votes
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    #3 - 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.

    Director: Daina Reid

    Writer: Kris Wyld

  • King Memses' Curse
    8.2/10471 votes
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    #4 - 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.

    Director: Daina Reid

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Air
    8.1/10400 votes
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    #5 - 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.

    Director: Catherine Millar

    Writer: Ysabelle Dean, Mia Tolhurst

  • Murder Under the Mistletoe
    8.0/10490 votes
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    #6 - Murder Under the Mistletoe

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/2013

    Phryne, Dot and Dr Mac accompany Aunt Prudence to a picturesque chalet to celebrate Christmas. When they arrive they find a resident dead and soon the body count starts to rapidly rise.

    Director: Tony Tilse

    Writer: Elizabeth Coleman

  • Death by Miss Adventure
    7.9/10466 votes
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    #7 - 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.

    Director: Daina Reid

    Writer: N/A

  • The Blood of Juana the Mad
    7.9/10420 votes
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    #8 - 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.

    Director: Peter Andrikidis

    Writer: John Banas

  • Murder A La Mode
    7.8/10411 votes
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    #9 - Murder A La Mode

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/2013

    Set in the Fleuri sisters' exclusive fashion salon at the 'Paris end' of Collins Street. When Phryne arrives at Madame Fleuri's for a fitting, she unexpectedly finds herself amidst a crime scene. The salon's benefactor has been found impaled on her own hairpiece in the sumptuous powder room, and everyone present is a suspect! Phryne uses her innate understanding of haute couture fashion to help Jack uncover an elaborate scheme.

    Director: Sian Davies

    Writer: Kristen Dunphy

  • Blood at the Wheel
    7.8/10418 votes
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    #10 - 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.

    Director: Sian Davies

    Writer: Michelle Offen

  • Death on the Vine
    7.8/10394 votes
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    #11 - 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.

    Director: Catherine Millar

    Writer: Chris Corbett

  • Death & Hysteria
    7.8/10379 votes
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    #12 - 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.

    Director: Mat King

    Writer: Ysabelle Dean

  • Murder on the Ballarat Train
    7.7/10704 votes
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    #13 - 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.

    Director: Kate Dennis

    Writer: N/A

  • Queen of the Flowers
    7.7/10482 votes
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    #14 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder Most Scandalous
    7.7/10450 votes
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    #15 - Murder Most Scandalous

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2013

    When Deputy Commissioner George Sanders, Jack's ex-father-in-law, is implicated in a murder of a prostitute, Jack becomes determined to clear his name. He also has to deal with the reappearance of his ex-wife Rosie. Meanwhile, Phryne tries to perfect her fan dance, so she can go undercover at a gentleman's club run by Madam Lyon.

    Director: Tony Tilse

    Writer: Kristen Dunphy

  • Dead Man's Chest
    7.7/10422 votes
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    #16 - Dead Man's Chest

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/2013

    Buried treasure and pirate legends bubble to the surface in the seaside holiday town of Queenscliff and Phryne finds herself at the pointy end of a Spanish dagger.

    Director: Ken Cameron

    Writer: John Banas

  • Framed for Murder
    7.7/10411 votes
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: Peter Andrikidis

    Writer: Chris Corbett

  • Death Defying Feats
    7.7/10414 votes
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    #18 - Death Defying Feats

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/8/2015

    When the unfortunate assistant in a magic show is beheaded on stage, Jack and Phryne's investigation unravels a secret murder in the past. Phryne's estranged father makes a surprise visit from England.

    Director: Tony Tilse

    Writer: Elizabeth Coleman

  • Game, Set & Murder
    7.7/10356 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: Daina Reid

    Writer: Elizabeth Coleman

  • The Green Mill Murder
    7.6/10621 votes
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    #20 - 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.

    Director: Kate Dennis

    Writer: Michael Miller

  • Ruddy Gore
    7.6/10524 votes
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    #21 - 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.

    Director: David Caesar

    Writer: N/A

  • Away with the Fairies
    7.6/10502 votes
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    #22 - 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.

    Director: Emma Freeman

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Comes Knocking
    7.6/10417 votes
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    #23 - Death Comes Knocking

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2013

    Phryne ends up playing host to some ghostly soldiers and exotic spiritualists. Aunt Prudence becomes swept up in the new spiritualist fad and gets a famous psychic to contact her dead godson.

    Director: Ken Cameron

    Writer: Ysabelle Dean

  • Murder & the Maiden
    7.6/10371 votes
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    #24 - Murder & the Maiden

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/15/2015

    When a high-ranking RAAF officer disappears without explanation from an RAAF Base, Phryne is called upon by an old flame to discreetly solve the mystery.

    Director: Tony Tilse

    Writer: Ysabelle Dean

  • Murder & Mozzarella
    7.6/10393 votes
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    #25 - Murder & Mozzarella

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/22/2015

    In the world of family Italian restaurants, old grudges from the village are stirred up when matriarch Nonna Luisa dies and the ownership of a secret book of recipes becomes the suspected motive.

    Director: Peter Andrikidis

    Writer: Chris Corbett