Two days prior to Phryne's licentious cousin's engagement party, Aunt P. finds her teenage chambermaid floating dead in the swimming pool, but the party goes on, nonetheless.
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.
The man intent on killing Phryne's father escapes from the hospital on the same night that a prominent scientist is murdered. As Phryne and Jack race the clock to save Baron Fisher, Hugh and Dot make final wedding preparations.
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.
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.
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.
A disagreeable woman vanishes from a moving train, later found slain, with a scared girl in possession of her jewelry. Miss Fisher aims to help, much to Insp. Robinson's professional annoyance.
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.