7.4/10550 votesLoading...#1 - 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.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: N/A
7.4/10526 votesLoading...#2 - 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...
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Michael Miller
7.5/10828 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Deb Cox
7.5/10515 votesLoading...#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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10456 votesLoading...#5 - Blood and 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10390 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
Director: Declan Eames
Writer: John Banas
7.5/10404 votesLoading...#7 - Marked for Murder
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/2013
Inspired by a Kerry Greenwood short story and set amidst the passion and fanaticism of 1929 Australian Rules Football. When Phryne is duped into investigating the coach's missing 'lucky cap', she discovers a gruesome murder instead - the local team Captain is found hanging by a rival team's scarf and it seems at first a clear - cut case of murderous sabotage.
Director: Declan Eames
Writer: John Banas
7.6/10617 votesLoading...#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.
Director: Kate Dennis
Writer: Michael Miller
7.6/10522 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.6/10500 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.6/10415 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.6/10370 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/10392 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.6/10357 votesLoading...#14 - Blood & Money
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/29/2015
The same morning Phryne is approached by a young boy whose brother has gone missing, Dr Mac calls her to advise that another boy has been found in a shallow grave near the hospital where she works.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Belinda Chayko
7.6/10358 votesLoading...#15 - Death at the Grand
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/12/2015
When a Hotel Concierge is pushed from the rooftop with an empty bag 'souvenired' from Phryne's house Jack calls Phryne into investigate what looks like a robbery gone wrong.
Director: Mat King
Writer: Chris Corbett
7.7/10701 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.7/10480 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.7/10449 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.7/10420 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.7/10411 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.7/10413 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.7/10355 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.8/10410 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.8/10418 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.8/10394 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Every episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Death at Victoria Docks" is the worst rated episode of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries". It scored 7.4/10 based on 550 votes. Directed by Tony Tilse and written by N/A, it aired on 3/16/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Raisins and Almonds".