Miss Fisher goes undercover to investigate how Jack's unconscious ex-father-in-law came to lie near the slain best friend of Dot's sister (a lady of the evening) with the door bolted from the inside.
Buried treasure and pirate legends bubble to the surface in the seaside holiday town of Queenscliff. Phryne finds herself at the pointy end of a Spanish dagger.
Jack silently welcomes Miss Fisher's help in solving two deaths involving a special police unit, rival street gangs, a traveling boxing troupe, fixed matches, Constable Collins' boxing protege, and a sprinkling of flour.
Murders at Phryne's high-end dressmakers' establishment lead she and Jack to sift tnot only through thefts, but conditions within a May to December marriage - and clandestine business activities.
With passions already running high, Phryne aids Jack's investigation into the death of a football captain hanging in the team showers from a rival team's scarf.
Jack and Phryne find themselves at odds over the issue of foul play when a lady racer dies in a car crash. The matter shakes up their working relationship.
The death of Dr Mac's university colleague pulls Phryne and Jack from their estrangement to untangle a murder that involves a brilliant but rightfully paranoid female student.
The Tuckerbag Film Studio (in which Phryne has invested) suffers a setback when the leading actor in its Egyptian epic is killed on set. Another murder soon follows.
When Phryne and Dot arrive at an idyllic vineyard, they quickly become involved in investigating a suspicious death, but hostile townsfolk do everything they can to drive them out of town. Meanwhile, Hugh prepares for a daunting task.
When Phryne installs her new wireless, she doesn't expect to encounter murder on the airwaves. Dot realises her future is up in the air too. With Jack undercover, it's up to Hugh, Dot and Phryne to solve the puzzle before more people die.
When the death of a teenager leads Jack and Phryne to investigate a halfway house for pregnant and wayward girls, they find their investigation blocked at every turn. With Jack's job in jeopardy, solving this case just got personal.
Phryne's Christmas in July turns deadly when trapped inhabitants at a snowed-in mountain lodge find themselves being killed off according to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
