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September 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in September 2013:

Susan Wittig Albert: The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star (This will be the 4th in the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series.)

M. C. Beaton: Something Borrowed, Someone Deadly (This will be the 24th in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): The Cakes of Wrath (This will be the 4th in the Piece of Cake Mystery Series.)

Meg Cabot: The Bride Wore Size 12 (This will be the 4th in the Heather Wells Mystery Series.) (This is a Wedding theme mystery.)

Margaret Coel: Killing Custer (This will be the 17th in the Wind River Mystery Series.)

Clive Cussler & Thomas Perry: The Mayan Secrets (This will be the 5th in the Fargo Adventure Mystery Series.)

Christine DeSmet: First Degree Fudge (This will be the 1st in the NEW Fudge Shop Mystery Series.) (I’ll be adding DeSmet to the site in early September.)

Charlotte & Aaron Elkins: A Cruise to Die For (This will be the 2nd in the Alix London Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Silent Knife (This will be the 2nd in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Sue Grafton: W is for Wasted (This will be the 23rd in the Kinsey Millhone Mystery Series.)

Ellie Grant (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & J. J. Cook): Plum Deadly (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pie in the Sky mysteries.)

Susanna Gregory (aka 1/2 of Simon Beaufort): The Lost Abbot (This will be the 19th in the Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower: In Plain Disappearance (This will be the 3rd in the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Jane Haddam: Hearts of Sand (This will be the 28th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series.)

Victoria Hamilton: Bran New Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Merry Muffin Mystery Series.)

Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner, Editors: An Apple for the Creature (This will be a Stand Alone Anthology.)

Veronica Heley: Murder with Mercy (This will be the 14th in the Ellie Quicke Mystery Series.)

J. A. Jance: Second Watch (This will be the 21st in the J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series.)

Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris, Editors: An Apple for the Creature (This will be a Stand Alone Anthology.)

Josi S. Kilpack: Rocky Road (This will be the 9th in the Culinary Mystery Series.)

Laurie R. King: The Bones of Paris (This will be a Stand Alone mystereis.)

M. Louisa Locke: Bloody Lessons (This will be the 3rd in the Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier: Christmas Carol Murder (This will be the 20th in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Clare O’Donohue: The Double Wedding Ring (This will be the 5th in the Someday Quilts Mystery Series.)

Joyce Carol Oates: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (These are mystery novellas.)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): The Sound and the Furry (This will be the 6th in the Chet and Bernie Mystery Series.)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Thankless in Death (This will be the 38th in the Eve Dallas Mystery Series.)

Hank Phillippi Ryan: The Wrong Girl (This will be the 2nd in the Jane Ryland Mystery Series.)

Deborah Sharp: Mama Gets Trashed (This will be the 5th in the Mace Bauer Mystery Series.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: The Good Sister (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Denise Swanson: Murder of a Stacked Librarian (This will be the 16th in the Scumble River Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Marcia Talley: Dark Passage (This will be the 12th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.)

Maggie Toussaint: Dime If I Know (This will be the 3rd in the Cleopatra Jones Mystery Series.)

Gayle Trent (aka Amanda Lee): Battered to Death (This will be the 4th in the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series.)

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Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for August 2013

I just finished going through TCM’s Now Playing for August 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) Here are the mystery movies that I was able to find. Most of them are old, black and white mysteries. When I say “old”, that’s exactly what I mean!

I have not seen a lot of them, so I cannot vouch for all of them. Those that I have seen, I watched several years ago. I live here in San Antonio, so I have listed the Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during August 2013, please post a comment.

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 1, 2013

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)  8:00 AM (central)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE BIG SLEEP (1946)  7:00 PM  (central)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 2, 2013

No mystery movies. Doris Day day – all day.

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 6, 2013

BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)  11:30 AM  (central)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC

SUSPICION (1941)  5:00 PM  (central)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwick.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

REBECCA (1940)  7:00 PM  (central)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders.
BW-130 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 7, 2013

ABOVE SUSPICION (1943)  8:30 AM  (central)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

BORDERLINE (1950)  10:30 AM  (central)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

MURDER, HE SAYS (1945)  7:00 PM  (central)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)  9:00 PM  (central) (***Really good.)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 8, 2013

PUSHOVER (1954)  3:00 AM  (central)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey, Kim Novak.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 9, 2013

BULLITT (1968)  3:00 PM  (central)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 10, 2013

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)  12:00 PM  (central)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 11, 2013

THE WRONG MAN (1956)  2:15 PM  (central)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 14, 2013

Bette Davis day – all day

JEZEBEL (1938)  11:00 AM  (central) (***Not a mystery. Very much à la Gone with the Wind)
A tempestuous Southern belle’s willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE LETTER (1940)  1:00 PM (central)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941)  10:15 PM  (central) (***This is a Christmas movie.)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 15, 2013

THE NANNY (1965)  3:15 AM  (central)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis , Wendy Craig , Jill Bennett .
BW-93 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

SPELLBOUND (1945)  10:15 AM  (central)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

DESIGNING WOMAN (1957)  12:15 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery. I saw it years ago and remember it as a cute movie.)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray.
C-118 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 18, 2013

GYPSY (1962)  10:00 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery, but Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, and Karl Malden are wonderful in it.)
A domineering mother pushes her two daughters to burlesque stardom.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden.
C-143 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 20, 2013

MAD MISS MANTON, THE (1938)  12:00 PM  (central)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 21, 2013

BORN YESTERDAY (1950)  10:00 PM ((central) ***It looks like I am trying to convert you all to be Judy Holliday fans. It seems that I keep putting her movies on these list, even though they aren’t mysteries. I’ve mentioned before, she’s one of my favorite actresses.)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 22, 2013

No mystery movies. Maggie Smith day – all day

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 23, 2013

(***All 3 of the movies showing today are quite good. They are not mysteries.)

LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)  10:00 AM  (central)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor.
C-118 mins, TV-G, CC,

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)  12:00 PM  (central)
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC

FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND (1951)  1:45 PM  (central)
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, a doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 24, 2013

THE LADY EVE (1941)  7:00 PM  (central) (***If you’re in the mood to laugh, this movie should fill that bill. It has Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda at their best.)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 25, 2013

LURED (1947)  1:00 AM  (central)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW-103 mins, TV-G

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)  7:00 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery, but is quite good.)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connoll .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – August 26, 2013

TWENTY PLUS TWO (1961)  8:30 AM  (central)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

DANGEROUS CROSSING (1953)  5:30 PM  (central)
When a bride goes on a ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams.
BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 28, 2013

THE STONE KILLER (1973)  3:15 AM  (central)
A top detective is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso.
C-95 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 29, 2013

(***They will be playing 7 of the 9 Torchy Blane mystery movies today. These are the 7 in which Glenda Farrell played Torchy Blane and Barton MacLane played the detective, Steve MacBride.)

I’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER (1934)  6:30 AM  (central)
Two telephone engineers try to clear a woman of criminal charges.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins.
BW-69 mins, TV-G

FLY AWAY BABY (1937)  11:45 AM  (central) (***Torchy Blane #2)
Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell , Barton MacLane , Gordon Oliver .
BW-60 mins, TV-G

THE ADVENTUROUS BLONDE (1937)  1:00 PM  (central) (***Torchy Blane #3)
Reporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
Dir: Frank MacDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel.
BW-61 mins, TV-PG

BLONDES AT WORK (1938)  2:15 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #4)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-64 mins, TV-G

TORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)  3:30 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #6)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-63 mins, TV-G

TORCHY BLANE IN CHINATOWN (1938)  4:45 PM  (***Torchy Blane #7)
A daring lady reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-58 mins, TV-G, CC

TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)  5:45 PM  (***Torchy Blane #8)
After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-60 mins, TV-G, CC

SMART BLONDE (1936)  7:00 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #1)
An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
BW-59 mins, TV-G, CC

THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)  8:15 PM  (central)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell.
C-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 30, 2013

OUT OF THE PAST (1947)  5:00 AM  (central)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

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Cozy Mysteries Recommendations – July 2013

I was in Walmart yesterday, when it finally struck me that school is almost here! They had their seasonal aisle area full of notebooks, pencils, crayons, and binders. How could the summer be slipping away so quickly? When I got home, I looked at the calendar, and sure enough >>> July is almost over!

So it is at this time that I should be “wrapping up the month” with the July 2013 Cozy Mysteries Recommendations. (I am reading Honeybee Democracy, which is not a mystery – or fiction – so I can’t include it on our July 2013 Cozy Mysteries list. My husband recommended the book to me a while back, and I finally was in the mood to put aside my Cozy Mysteries to read it. I’m enjoying it a lot. Who would have thought honeybees could be so interesting?)

I know it’s getting tedious that I remind you every month that your recommendation should be the one Cozy Mystery you read during July that you want the rest of us to know about. (If you read more than just one Cozy Mystery that you loved, let us know about those.) Please tell us why you enjoyed the book (books). That way, the rest of us can decide whether your recommended Cozy Mystery is a book we would like to try.

[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the books you read that you didn’t like.]

What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during July 2013, and why did you enjoy it (or him/her)?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read this past month:

Jeffrey Allen: Stay at Home Dad mysteries

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow mysteries

Annie’s Attic mysteries by various authors

Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s mysteries

Gretchen Archer: Double Whammy (Davis May Crime Caper mysteries)

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder, She Wrote mysteries

Mignon F. Ballard: Miss Dimple mysteries 

Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen mysteries

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L. L. Bartlett): Booktown mysteries

Jessica Beck: Donut Shop mysteries

Rhys Bowen: Lady Georgiana mysteries AND Molly Murphy mysteries

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries mysteries

Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop mysteries

Lea Chan: The Chameleon Chase 

Laura Childs: Tea Shop mysteries

Agatha Christie: Miss Marple mysteries

Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques mysteries

E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse mysteries

Catherine Coulter: FBI Thriller mysteries

Philip R. Craig: Martha’s Vineyard mysteries

Bill Crider: Sally Good mysteries AND Carl Burns mysteries AND Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries

Mary Daheim: Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast mysteries

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge mysteries

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear mysteries

Alice Duncan: Daisy Gumm Majesty mysteries AND Mercy Allcutt mysteries

Chrystle Fiedler: Natural Remedies mysteries

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Murder, She Wrote mysteries

Amanda Flower: Appleseed Creek mysteries

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Cookbook Nook mysteries

Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore mysteries

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand mysteries

Betty Hechtman: Yarn Retreat mysteries

Sue Henry: Maxie & Stretch mysteries

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Mallory mysteries

Maddy Hunter: Passport to Peril mysteries

Julie Hyzy: Manor of Murder mysteries

Meg London (aka Peggy Cochran): Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie mysteries

Max McCoy: Of Grave Concern (Ophelia Wylde Paranormal mysteries)

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone mysteries

Amy Metz: Goose Pimple Junction mysteries

Laura Morrigan: Woof at the Door (Call of the Wilde mysteries)

Liz Mugavero: Kneading to Die (Pawsitively Organic mysteries)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie mysteries

Sara Rossett: On the Run mysteries

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland mysteries

Susan Santangelo: Baby Boomer mysteries

Maggie Sefton: Kelly Flynn Knitting mysteries

Susan Sundwall: Red Shoe Lace Killer

Denise Swanson: Deveraux’s Dime Store mysteries

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Asy Mayo mysteries

Teresa Trent: Doggone Dead (Pecan Bayou mysteries)

Lea Wait: Shadows Antique Print mysteries

Betty Webb: Gunn Zoo mysteries AND Lena Jones mysteries (not Cozy)

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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Television Show

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 1 The Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries television show is a familiar TV mystery series that might not be all that familiar. Most Cozy Mystery readers of this site are very familiar with Kerry Greenwood‘s Phryne Fisher Mysteries. Some of you read the series while others have probably seen it recommended (several times) by other Cozy Mystery readers in the monthly recommendation posts.

It wasn’t until very recently that I heard of this very clever television mystery series. Several Cozy Mystery readers sent me letters telling me about their enjoyment of the show. (Thank you!)

My husband and I have recently started watching the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and we are both enjoying the shows a lot. They are based on Kerry Greenwood’s wildly popular Phryne Fisher mysteries. Phryne is a 1920s flapper (dictionary.reference.com defines flapper as  “a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.”)

Phryne, although not born into money, is now rich enough to be able to afford the many luxuries that her bank account can buy. She is able to employ as many people as she wants, live as luxuriously as she deems necessary, and buy whatever trinkets (like airplanes!) she chooses. She is quite wealthy!

This Australian period-piece television mystery series stars Essie Davis, who plays the Phryne lead to perfection. She is brazenly upfront with her very modern 1920s views. Phryne has a deliciously wicked twinkle in her eyes.

The always-exasperated Detective Jack Robinson is played beautifully by Nathan Page. The attraction between Jack and Phryne is palpable. However, not being a girl who sits around waiting for the married Jack, Phryne is not adverse to quick romances. (Not to worry >>> nothing graphic!)

When I was doing my research for this entry, I found out that Kerry Greenwood was actually involved with this TV series as writer for all thirteen episodes of the 2012 productions. So even though the (+/-) 55 minute episodes do a lot of abridging, it’s nice that Greenwood was involved with the condensed versions of her mystery books.

We have only watched the first several delightful episodes of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, but from these I can say that the costumes are  absolutely wonderful. Phryne wears only the most beautiful fashions. As for the sets, they are full of  fringe, tassels, velveteen, crystal, satin, period furniture, and beautiful wall papers.

I highly recommend Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. What’s not to like about a TV mystery series that has a butler named Mr. Butler?

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