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Phryne Fisher

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Phryne Fisher	comment	A series of mystery novels by Kerry Greenwood.In early 1928, bored, wealthy aristocrat Phryne Fisher (pronounced 'fry-nee') solves a minor mystery at a dinner when she finds a stolen necklace. One of her fellow guests is impressed by her skill at deduction and asks her to solve a case for him in Australia. Phryne returns to her native land, solves the case and becomes a private detective. Taking Melbourne and the rest of Victoria by storm with her class, skills, flair and talent for continually doing scandalous things, she quickly builds up a group of friends and allies- everyone from a pair of cab drivers to one of the few female doctors in the country- while solving her strange and myriad cases.The Phryne Fisher mysteries: Cocaine Blues Flying Too High Murder on the Ballarat Train Death at Victoria Dock The Green Mill Murder Blood and Circuses Ruddy Gore Urn Burial Raisins and Almonds Death Before Wicket Away With The Fairies Murder in Montparnasse The Castlemaine Murders Queen of the Flowers Death By Water Murder in the Dark A Question of Death (short story collection) Murder on a Midsummer Night Dead Man's Chest Unnatural Habits Murder and Mendelssohn Death In Daylesford Murder In WilliamstownThe series has been adapted into a TV series on ABC, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, starring Essie Davis in the main role. Several changes have been made from the canon, including removing Ruth entirely, giving Phryne a new sister called Janey and an Aunt called Prudence. Fan reactions have been mixed, although the author loves it. Another spin-off was created in the form of Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, a series of telenovels with an entirely original script, featuring Phryne's niece Peregrine Fisher, who becomes a private detective when her aunt goes missing.
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Phryne Fisher / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Phryne Fisher / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Despite actually working as a private investigator, Phryne gets most of her cases by stumbling into them.
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Phryne Fisher / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Phryne Fisher / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Averted. When Phryne lived in Paris, she bought paintings from Picasso and occasionally talked to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. She was also part of a group of female friends including Dolly Wilde (Oscar Wilde's niece), Joe Carstairs, Natalie Barney, Barbara Lowther/La Toupie (who ran the ambulance unit Phryne was part of) and Romaine Brooks. Mr Featherstonehaugh from Unnatural Habits was part of Oscar Wilde's circle. Both Phryne and Rupert Sheffield worked with Compton Mackenzie during World War One. The cultists in Death Before Wicket are explicitly mentioned to have been followers of Aleister Crowley.
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Phryne Fisher / int_16bd97d1	type	ICallHerVera
Phryne Fisher / int_16bd97d1	comment	I Call Her "Vera": In Murder In The Dark, the assassin known as the Joker has named all of his knives. The one he attempts to use on Phryne is named 'Eleanora', after his mother, who he'd actually killed.
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Phryne Fisher / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Phryne Fisher / int_17501df2	comment	Margery Keith in Away With The Fairies and Margery Lemmon in Death By Water both happen to be the sprightly young nieces of Cool Old Guys.
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Phryne Fisher / int_182f59f9	type	On One Condition
Phryne Fisher / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: In Flying Too High, the will of the Asshole Victim leaves nearly everything to his widow and daughter on the condition that neither of them marry, just to keep controlling them after his death. Subverted. At the end it turns out setting such a condition is legally invalid. His attorney even told him this, but he thought they'd be too intimidated to challenge it.
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Phryne Fisher / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Phryne Fisher / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In Away With The Fairies, Phryne describes Ms Lavender as being totally away with the fairies- that is, insane.
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Phryne Fisher / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Phryne Fisher / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Bert and Cec.
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Phryne Fisher / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Phryne Fisher / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Ruth, though he comes back.
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Phryne Fisher / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Phryne Fisher / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Grigg and Gallagher in Away with the Fairies. Dulcie and Alice in Death in Daylesford; Dot initially mistakes Dulcie for a boy.
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Phryne Fisher / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Phryne Fisher / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: This is Inspector Jack Robinson's major physical trait, and it makes him a very efficient policeman. Even people he has arrested cannot remember what he looks like.
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Phryne Fisher / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Phryne Fisher / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In the backstory of Away With the Fairies, the children's author Marcella Lavender had parents like this, which led directly to her "[breaking] out into fairies" once they died.
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Phryne Fisher / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Phryne Fisher / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Albert Forrester in Death By Water, a photographer who specializes in nudes and is actually quite good at his job. Other characters specify that he's given to ogling but always takes no for an answer.
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Phryne Fisher / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Phryne Fisher / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Forward-thinking as she is, Phryne opines in Away with the Fairies that "Hemlines aren't going to rise any higher. No couturiere is going to actually expose the knee, the ugliest joint we have."
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Phryne Fisher / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
Phryne Fisher / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: Phryne's first scene in Raisins and Almonds has her watch a mass argument break out at the Jewish Young People's Society over the judging of a dance contest.
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Phryne Fisher / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Phryne Fisher / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: In Death in Daylesford, the murderer's final murder attempt was a Booby Trap involving a grenade rigged up on the outside toilet of the final victim.
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Phryne Fisher / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Phryne Fisher / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: In Death At Victoria Dock and heavily, heavily implied between the Templar twins.
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Phryne Fisher / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Phryne Fisher / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Phryne's art deco high fashion wardrobe, including a genuine Erte ball gown. However, if she disguises herself as a poor person, she is careful to have her garments aged and dirtied.
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Phryne Fisher / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Phryne Fisher / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: What the killer in Murder In Montparnasse tries to do. It doesn't work once someone bothers to conduct an actual investigation.
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Phryne Fisher / int_4179d411	type	Spooky SÃ©ance
Phryne Fisher / int_4179d411	comment	Spooky SÃ©ance: Several throughout the series. In Death At Victoria Dock, a mostly Phony Psychic produces "ghosts" for revolutionaries which are contradicted by at least one of the men actually being alive, but then a genuine one turns up for Phryne with Something Only They Would Say. In Ruddy Gore, a spiritualist meeting comes up with the ghost of Dorothea Curtis who, in retrospect, successfully identified her murderer, and is later implied to possess her daughter.
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Phryne Fisher / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
Phryne Fisher / int_44dd01be	comment	Tagalong Kid: Tinker, a kid from Queenscliff who starts working for Phryne in Dead Man's Chest and ends up becoming a part of the household at the end of the book.
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Phryne Fisher / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
Phryne Fisher / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Just Joking" Justification: The villain of "The Camberwell Wonder" tries this after he faked his death and tricked his Gentle Giant employee into framing himself for murder, in order to abscond with his wife's money and his mistress.
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Phryne Fisher / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Phryne Fisher / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: Occurs often. For example, in Murder In The Dark, the abductor is revealed to be Sylvanus, but we're never told some of the things that leads Phryne to figure it out- like that he can't swim, for instance.
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Phryne Fisher / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Phryne Fisher / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: All the freaking time.
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Phryne Fisher / int_4e43e4e6	type	Engaging Conversation
Phryne Fisher / int_4e43e4e6	comment	Engaging Conversation: In Murder in the Dark, Mr. Butler compliments the Templars' housekeeper by saying, "If I weren't already married..." (She's both cool in a crisis and a very good pastry cook.)
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Phryne Fisher / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Phryne Fisher / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: "John Bell" takes a Cyanide Pill at the summation of Away with the Fairies. As does "Frederick McKenzie" in Death in Daylesford after being caught red-handed trying to murder someone. His end comes more painfully than he expected.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
Phryne Fisher / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: In Away With The Fairies, John Bell turns out to be an Italian named Giovanni Campana.
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Phryne Fisher / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
Phryne Fisher / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: In Murder In The Dark, Phryne is sent a live coral snake disguised as a Christmas present.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Phryne Fisher / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Eliza, Phryne's sister, is a lesbian, but nobody once brings up the possibility of her being bisexual. Phryne herself. She once said that 'My Sapphic friends say I'd make a perfect lesbian if I didn't have this strange yen for male genitalia.' The word 'bisexual' has never come up, or anything like it.
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Phryne Fisher / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Phryne Fisher / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lydia Andrews in Cocaine Blues. She's been steadily poisoning herself with small doses of arsenic and framing her husband for it, so that when she slips him a lethal dose he'll be assumed to be Hoist by His Own Petard.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5692bfd9	type	Human Notepad
Phryne Fisher / int_5692bfd9	comment	Human Notepad: In Away With the Fairies, the Ruthless Modern Pirates carve their ransom demands into Li Pen's chest and send him back to Lin's family as the messenger.
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Phryne Fisher / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Phryne Fisher / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Variant in Raisins and Almonds, when Phryne tries to assuage the suspicions of her fling's Jewish Mother.
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Phryne Fisher / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Phryne Fisher / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Jane, one of Phryne's adopted daughters.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Phryne Fisher / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Actually averted in Murder On The Ballarat Train- the sweet scent of chloroform wakes Phryne up (being a light sleeper helped) and the person who had a chloroform-soaked rag laid on her face suffered horrific burns and nearly had liver damage. Leads to some Foreshadowing, as the victim's medical student fiancÃ© exclaims that he didn't know chloroform would do that....
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Phryne Fisher / int_5c04772f	type	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
Phryne Fisher / int_5c04772f	comment	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: One of the things that leads Phryne to believe that the abductor in Murder In The Dark was Sylvanus, which it was turned out to be his being in possession of two lunch boxes. Because it's impossible that he could have just been carrying one to someone else.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Phryne Fisher / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Phryne.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
Phryne Fisher / int_5c219298	comment	In Death At Victoria Dock, a mostly Phony Psychic produces "ghosts" for revolutionaries which are contradicted by at least one of the men actually being alive, but then a genuine one turns up for Phryne with Something Only They Would Say.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5c9737b5	type	Public Exposure
Phryne Fisher / int_5c9737b5	comment	Public Exposure: Phryne worked as an artist's model in Paris after World War I. She has a painting of naked nymph for which she was the model hanging in her drawing room, to the surprise of some guests.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Phryne Fisher / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Tobias Butler, Phryne's butler.
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Phryne Fisher / int_5db7301f	type	Prophetic Names
Phryne Fisher / int_5db7301f	comment	Prophetic Names: The late Mr. Tipping in "The Voice is Jacob's Voice" named his sons Jacob and Esau and then wrote his will so that only one of them would inherit. Honestly, what did he expect?
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Phryne Fisher / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Phryne Fisher / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: In one very memorable example, Jane ends up being used as the bait for a gang of human traffickers in Unnatural Habits. She isn't even slightly scared. Keep in mind that this is a boat full of armed men and she's a tiny, unarmed kid with not much backup.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Phryne Fisher / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: In Queen Of The Flowers, Anna Ross never identified Rory by his last name, contrary to what Jane says, nor did she refer to him as a piper, so what she told Ruth did not directly confirm what the notes said. In addition, no explanation is given as to why she only remembered James Murray as Hamish McGregor when she knew him for months beforehand as James Murray. Death By Water: Why did the Wests keep going on cruises on the same ship when the same people kept foiling them each time they stole something? Why didn't the people in question try blackmailing them to stop stealing? Since the Melody Makers overheard it all, why didn't they tell P&O who was stealing the jewellery? Why didn't the Wests just 'steal' her pearls, claim the insurance and sell them later, in fact? In Dead Man's Chest, Phryne identifies Maire as one of the people who took the Johnson couple's food from their house because she knew her way around the kitchen and supposedly had never been there before. But she had been there before- the previous day, when she first helped out Ruth, and Phryne knew that, so as a reveal, it doesn't make sense. An important subplot in Murder In The Dark is a riddle game linked to the disappearance of a young child. But the answer to the final riddle is not revealed, despite its importance, and the hunt is not resolved- in the end, Phryne only realises the riddler's identity by seeing his handwriting later, and the riddles do not directly lead to the child's rescue.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Phryne Fisher / int_6363937b	comment	"John Bell" takes a Cyanide Pill at the summation of Away with the Fairies.
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Phryne Fisher / int_63a200ae	type	Smoky Gentlemen's Club
Phryne Fisher / int_63a200ae	comment	Smoky Gentlemen's Club: Phryne belongs to a smoky ladies club; a female-only club that is run along the same lines as a traditional gentlemen's club.
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Phryne Fisher / int_63b34edb	type	Thriller on the Express
Phryne Fisher / int_63b34edb	comment	Thriller on the Express: Murder on the Ballarat Train. Zigzagged in that while there is indeed a murder on the train to Ballarat, most of the action takes place in Melbourne.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6469517a	type	Bath of Poverty
Phryne Fisher / int_6469517a	comment	Bath of Poverty: Phryne loves luxuriating in long hot baths, because in her poverty-stricken childhood, she often had to take what she refers to as 'cat-washing': standing a basin and wiping herself down with damp flannel.
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Phryne Fisher / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
Phryne Fisher / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: The mute in a cornet is used as a blowgun in The Green Mill Murder.
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Phryne Fisher / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Phryne Fisher / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Jane. She tries not to let it interfere with her bedside manner, but she's got some work to do.
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Phryne Fisher / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Phryne Fisher / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Ruth, though she ends up visiting her for the first (and last) time.
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Phryne Fisher / int_69e690c2	type	Romance Novel
Phryne Fisher / int_69e690c2	comment	Romance Novel: Phryne's adoptive daughter Ruth loves her Harlequins and her Mills and Boons. They get mixed up in Phryne's own subscription (she likes Murder Mystery and Police Procedural, naturally)... and when she absent-mindedly reads a bit of Midnight of the Sheik, she barely refrains from throwing the offending book at the wall, wondering why Ruth reads such rubbish. Jane is much more sensible... she likes John Glaister's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology (which is not age-appropriate, or even fiction of any kind; it's a university-level textbook for aspiring coroners, so the 11-year-old Jane has clearly had a head start!)
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Phryne Fisher / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Phryne Fisher / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Ruth, Phryne's other adopted daughter.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Phryne Fisher / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In ancient Greece, Phryne was a famous hetaera who was so beautiful that she served as the model for several statues of the goddess Aphrodite. Legend also has it she escaped a charge of impiety (which carried a death sentence) by baring her breasts to the jury.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6ca9bb24	type	Eternal Sexual Freedom
Phryne Fisher / int_6ca9bb24	comment	Eternal Sexual Freedom: Phryne pretty much sleeps with whoever the hell she likes, and it's justified- see Refuge in Audacity below.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Phryne Fisher / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Isabella Templar from Murder In The Dark admits to Phryne that she was contemplating committing suicide rather than going bankrupt. She doesn't.
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Phryne Fisher / int_6d6af605	type	Take Me Out at the Ball Game
Phryne Fisher / int_6d6af605	comment	Take Me Out at the Ball Game: In Death Before Wicket, a student playing in a cricket match nearly dies from a snake bite, which turns out to be a shoe rigged to inject poison into the target while he is on the pitch. As it turns out, he wasn't actually the target, it was the guy he borrowed the shoes from, and the target wasn't intended to be killed, just put into a trance.
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Phryne Fisher / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Phryne Fisher / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Ruddy Gore.
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Phryne Fisher / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Phryne Fisher / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Leonard Brawn in Ruddy Gore, the book where Phryne first meets Lin Chung, who makes several sneering remarks about "Chinks." Robert Sheridan in Blood and Circuses is a sleaze in general about women. Then not only does he murder the intersex Mr. Christopher, who he claims to love, he insists on misgendering him and referring to him as Christine, much to the fury of his victim's fiancÃ©.
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Phryne Fisher / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
Phryne Fisher / int_73dd919c	comment	Genteel Interbellum Setting: Most of the stories are set in 1928 (the books after Murder In The Dark are set in 1929). Phryne reads both Agatha Christie (she is reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd during Murder in the Dark) and Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Phryne Fisher / int_75196a1d	type	Translation by Volume
Phryne Fisher / int_75196a1d	comment	Translation by Volume: Phryne's father has apparently subscribed to the view that all foreigners only pretend to speak their native languages, and will understand English if it's shouted loudly enough. It hasn't worked out very well for him.
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Phryne Fisher / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Phryne Fisher / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: We're constantly introduced to people Phryne knew once, mainly from Paris. To be fair, she did have a very interesting life before the books.
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Phryne Fisher / int_7b459dff	type	'20s Bob Haircut
Phryne Fisher / int_7b459dff	comment	'20s Bob Haircut: Phryne, being a thoroughly modern miss, naturally sports one. She attempts to persuade her companion Dot to get one as well, but Dot, who is suspicious all things modern, steadfastly refuses and keeps her long braid.
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Phryne Fisher / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
Phryne Fisher / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: lampshaded in Murder in Montparnasse- it was the entire motive of the killer.
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Phryne Fisher / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Phryne Fisher / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Phryne and Eliza's father. He was completely blitzed when he named Phryne, having intended to name her 'Psyche', and goes through several bottles of various alcoholic drinks a day.
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Phryne Fisher / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Phryne Fisher / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When speculating whether a young woman might have run away to keep from marrying her father's chosen suitor, Phryne muses that he's fifty years old... and has a moustache. Phryne tries to guess why her sister has been banished to Australia.
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Phryne Fisher / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Phryne Fisher / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: More like obstructive and annoying matriarch, but Lin Chung's grandmother definitely counts. Basically, all Chinese matriarchs are like this. Hell, all Chinese elderly women are like this.
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Phryne Fisher / int_83095fe8	type	Signature Scent
Phryne Fisher / int_83095fe8	comment	Signature Scent: In Murder in Montparnasse, Phryne notes of Elizabeth Chambers that "her favourite perfume is the unexceptionable lavender of Provence, not the scarlet passion of Jicky" (Phryne herself wears Jicky, though not exclusively). This is taken as another piece of evidence of Elizabeth's solid, practical nature.
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Phryne Fisher / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Phryne Fisher / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Zigzagged in Flying Too High, the Asshole Victim's will stipulates that his wife and daughter will only inherit his money if they don't marry—which causes some consternation, as both are in love (the wife was having an emotional affair). In real life, such clauses are unenforceable and have been for a long time. Phryne's lawyer friend points this out, and it turns out okay. The Camberwell Wonder has an in-universe case- it's a popular belief at the time that a person cannot be convicted for murder if the victim's body has not been found. However, Jack Robinson clarifies that you can in fact be convicted for murder without the body, especially if you've confessed and there's evidence to collaborate it. The supposed 'victim' was very aware of this, and used his knowledge to flee the country and make it look like he was murdered.
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Phryne Fisher / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Phryne Fisher / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: In Ruddy Gore, a constable who is overly fond of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique is convinced the stage carpenter did it for spurious reasons. That person turns out to be guilty of a different murder, much to Jack Robinson's dismay.
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Phryne Fisher / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Phryne Fisher / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Lindsay just vanishes in between Blood and Circuses and Ruddy Gore, by which we mean that he's just gone with no explanation whatsoever, not even a mention. Ruth discovers the identity of her father in Queen of the Flowers. He hasn't been mentioned since, even though they had plans to try starting an actual relationship.
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Phryne Fisher / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
Phryne Fisher / int_86f2d483	comment	Frying Pan of Doom: In Queen of the Flowers, Ruth knocks out an intruder in the Fisher household with a long handled frying pan. Dot takes one up in Dead Man's Chest.
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Phryne Fisher / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Phryne Fisher / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Phryne's Hispano-Suiza.
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Phryne Fisher / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Phryne Fisher / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: In Away With the Fairies, the pirates mail Lin's ear to Phryne.
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Phryne Fisher / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Phryne Fisher / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: If there's a murder, there's a fifty-fifty chance the victim was so awful that everyone they knew is a suspect. William McNaughton in Flying Too High, who abuses his wife and molested his daughter. His death turns out to be a complete accident caused by his own assholery. Bernard Stevens in The Green Mill Murder blackmails gay men in a society which criminalizes homosexuality. Phryne figures out who the killer is but gives him plenty of time to escape before bothering to inform Robinson (it probably helped that the killer had intended to kill someone else, but fatally missed). Mrs McNaster in Dead Man's Chest, an absolute bitch who is obsessed with spying on everyone in town and abuses her family and companion relentlessly. Eventually one of the maids decides that everyone would be better off if she's dead and suffocates her with a pillow, and nobody really minds. General Harbottle in "Overheard on a Balcony" in A Question of Death: a blackmailing, wife-beating General Ripper who has no shortage of people willing to poison him.
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Phryne Fisher / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Phryne Fisher / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Yourka and Maria in Death At Victoria Dock.
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Phryne Fisher / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Phryne Fisher / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Several of the stories in A Question Of Death. The story about the Book of Hours is basically a subplot that got dropped from Death Before Wicket, anyone who read Urn Burial should be able to guess most of the plot of Overheard On A Balcony with no trouble, and so on- not to mention that one of the stories is almost exactly the same as a Dorothy L. Sayers short story, plot-wise. They're not all totally unoriginal, of course.
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Phryne Fisher / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Phryne Fisher / int_90b66e22	comment	Phryne and Eliza. Physically, Phryne takes after their slim, dark-haired mother while Eliza takes after their big, fair father. Phryne is an urban sophisticate Femme Fatale, while Eliza is a charity worker who loves doing good. After a bad start in The Castlemaine Murders, they end up resolving their differences and getting along famously. And Phryne goes through men like wildfire, while Eliza is a monogamous lesbian.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9369b9d6	type	Bride and Switch
Phryne Fisher / int_9369b9d6	comment	Bride and Switch: In Murder in Montparnasse. Lin Chung has an Arranged Marriage with a girl he's never met; when she dies unexpectedly, her family sends an older cousin with the same name to Australia in her place.
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Phryne Fisher / int_95324d09	type	Sexy Coat Flashing
Phryne Fisher / int_95324d09	comment	Sexy Coat Flashing: The story of Phryne's namesake stripping in court is mentioned early in Cocaine Blues. Later, she keeps from being arrested by taking off her robe and threatening to go to the police station naked.
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Phryne Fisher / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Phryne Fisher / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Again, all the freaking time.
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Phryne Fisher / int_977a6ec0	type	Girl Friday
Phryne Fisher / int_977a6ec0	comment	Girl Friday: Dot Williams, Phryne's confidential maid and companion.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Phryne Fisher / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Phryne and Simon go skinny dipping in Raisins and Almonds.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
Phryne Fisher / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: In Murder and Mendelssohn, a conductor who habitually licks his finger before turning the pages of his score is poisoned when the killer coats the top of his score with arsenic.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Phryne Fisher / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Dot goes from meek, mild and harmless to being ready to whack people with skillets — but then, when Phryne first met her, she was about to stab a man for sexually harassing her and getting her fired in disgrace.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Phryne Fisher / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Lindsay Herbert is one of Phryne's unending string of lovers (and the most permanent one, until Lin Chung comes along). He is extremely rich, well-meaning and not very bright; all of which he cheerfully admits. He proposes marriage in the short story Marrying the Bookie's Daughter, seemingly unable to realise that Phryne really isn't the sort who's just going to marry, discard her career, settle down and have children. In the end, he changes his mind after seeing a young lady who married at an early age and was terribly used by her husband.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Phryne Fisher / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At least one copy of Ruddy Gore has a foreword paraphrased as 'The 1928 cast of Ruddigore did not have any murderers in it'. At first it seems like a normal disclaimer, but as it turns out, nobody in the cast was the murderer.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Phryne Fisher / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: It's implied that Phryne hired Albert Forrester from Death by Water to take the family Christmas picture at the beginning of Murder in the Dark.
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Phryne Fisher / int_9de7a5d0	type	Fix Fic
Phryne Fisher / int_9de7a5d0	comment	Murder and Mendelssohn has a subplot that's a clear combination of this and Fix Fic. An old friend of Phryne comes to Australia with a friend who's giving a lecture. He's hopelessly in love with the friend, who doesn't appreciate him and is a complete arsehole. Phryne then investigates who is trying to kill the friend, not because she likes him, but because she's worried that her friend might die saving his life. The subplot would be just fine, if the characters weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. And, Phryne being Phryne, she ends up getting them both together, while bashing the Sherlock-expy for A, being a dick, B, being a misogynist, and C, acting like deduction is something he made up and has never been seen before when women have been using it for hundreds of years.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Phryne Fisher / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In Queen of the Flowers, the password to get on board the gambling ship the Ace of Clubs is "Swordfish" (or, at least, it is on the night Phryne visits). Phryne even lampshades it, saying that she feels like an extra in a Hollywood movie.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Phryne Fisher / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In Murder In Montparnasse, this is how Elizabeth Chambers tests her prospective husband, a French chef. She disguises herself as a deaf-mute boy and works in his kitchen to see how he treats his employees and acts under stress. She is thrilled to find out that he is an excellent employer, very kind and "hardly ever shouts". It should be noted that she'd wanted to do this by simply working in the kitchen without the disguise, but after her father flipped his shit at the idea, she had to come up with another plan.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Phryne Fisher / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In Blood and Circuses, Phryne goes undercover as a trick rider in a small travelling circus to investigate strange goings-on.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Phryne Fisher / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: General Harbottle, the Asshole Victim in "Overheard on a Balcony" in A Question of Death. He was responsible for scores, possibly hundreds, of deaths at Gallipoli, by sending men up an unclimbable hill to take an untakeable machine gun.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Phryne Fisher / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: The anarchist murdered at the start of Death At Victoria Dock dies in Phryne's arms.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Phryne Fisher / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mrs. Freeman in The Green Mill Murder. She falsely claimed her elder son was dead for years, sends her younger one to kill him, and ends up getting both parts of their inheritance after the younger dies and the elder renounces it.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Phryne Fisher / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Detective Inspector Robinson's first name is John, but everyone calls him Jack.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Phryne Fisher / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Julia Chivers in Murder in Montparnasse, who isn't the Dumb Blonde she pretends to be.
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Phryne Fisher / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Phryne Fisher / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Helen Opie in Away with the Fairies writes a parenting column for a magazine but has trouble dealing with her own young daughter.
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Phryne Fisher / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Phryne Fisher / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Given that this is set in the 1920's, it's intentional. Casual sexism and racism, blatant homophobia... Phryne thinks more like a modern reader than a normal woman of the 20's, but she's the exception, not the rule. In Death Over Wicket, Phryne runs into several cases. Clarence Ottery says that he's a black sheep because his uni course is Arts, not Medicine, and Phryne's reaction is basically to wonder if he's serious. In another, Joss basically says that whores are cheap and worthless, and Phryne has to resist the urge to hit him because she's investigating the disappearance and possible death of Dot's sister, an ex-whore.
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Phryne Fisher / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
Phryne Fisher / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: Phryne's father becomes an earl after a number of intervening young men died in World War I.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
Phryne Fisher / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: Lin is abducted and held for ransom by South China Sea pirates in Away With the Fairies.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Phryne Fisher / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Death By Water, Phryne's companion Dot is slipped a mickey to keep her out of the way while Phryne's cabin is searched. Phryne is ready to inflict serious physical harm on the perpetrator when she finds out.
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Phryne Fisher / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Phryne Fisher / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher and her sister, the Honourable Miss Eliza Fisher. Lady Alice Harborough, too.
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Phryne Fisher / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
Phryne Fisher / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: The safe in Death Before Wicket is huge and imposing, but it was made to be set in a wall, so it has a very thin back that can be easily removed. The owners of the safe never realised this, and didn't know that it should have been in a wall, so they left it on a desk.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Phryne Fisher / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Various members of the Yates family have "Too right". Phryne refers to people as "dear".
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Phryne Fisher / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Phryne Fisher / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Phryne and Eliza's mother never really did much to help them, and their father is an alcoholic bastard who continually tried to force his daughters into arranged marriages they didn't want.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Phryne Fisher / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Hugh Collins goes from constable to sergeant over the course of the novels.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Phryne Fisher / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: Mrs Butler's name was Elsie in Flying Too High, but has been changed to 'Aurelia'. Fraser from Dead Man's Chest is introduced at the beginning of the book as Tony, but by the end of the book, his name is suddenly Ian. Dot is introduced in Cocaine Blues as Dorothy Bryant, but in later books is Dorothy Williams. Jane starts out as a brunette with brown eyes, and in later books is a blonde with dark blue eyes. Her and Ruth's backstories are also retconned- Jane starts out with a dead father and a mother and grandmother who she lived with before each of them died, and was later retconned to her parents having given her to her grandmother and then wandering off and dying together. Ruth started off with having been in an orphanage after her parents died, and was later retconned to having a mother with TB and a father who is well and truly alive. In Queen of the Flowers, Phryne says she isn't a good singer. In Murder and Mendelssohn, she's suddenly good enough to have sung with at least one choir in the past, and fits into another choir without anyone objecting.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Phryne Fisher / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: One of the letter-writers in Away with the Fairies entered into one by mutual agreement. One of Miss Prout's many, many errors in her questionable advice is that she can't imagine a man who doesn't want sex with a woman.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Phryne Fisher / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Roderick Cholmondeley manages to be too stupid for a sports scholarship and too disgusting for the aristocratic marriage market.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Phryne Fisher / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: The murderer in Death in Daylesford has spent years establishing a persona that would allow him to plead Insanity. Phryne only gets an insight into his true calculating personality when she sees him playing a masterful strategy in bridge. Ultimately, however, he decides it is Better to Die than Be Killed and takes a Cyanide Pill after he is caught.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Phryne Fisher / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Murder and Mendelssohn has a subplot that's a clear combination of this and Fix Fic. An old friend of Phryne comes to Australia with a friend who's giving a lecture. He's hopelessly in love with the friend, who doesn't appreciate him and is a complete arsehole. Phryne then investigates who is trying to kill the friend, not because she likes him, but because she's worried that her friend might die saving his life. The subplot would be just fine, if the characters weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. And, Phryne being Phryne, she ends up getting them both together, while bashing the Sherlock-expy for A, being a dick, B, being a misogynist, and C, acting like deduction is something he made up and has never been seen before when women have been using it for hundreds of years. Then there's "The Joker" in Murder in the Dark, who is vehemently denied Joker Immunity. It's generally decided it's for the best that someone killed him after his latest murder attempt, especially since he's so good at escaping.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Phryne Fisher / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Invoked word for word in Queen Of The Flowers when Ruth is on her way to ask her dying mother who her father was, and hadn't actually thought any further than that.
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Phryne Fisher / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Phryne Fisher / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The Fisher siblings are Phryne, Eliza and Thos (who was mentioned once and has never appeared).
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Phryne Fisher / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Phryne Fisher / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Downplayed. Phryne is one of the few women she knows who will openly admit that she doesn't like children - and yet, she proves quite good at wrangling them.
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Phryne Fisher / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Phryne Fisher / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Phryne does not take it well when people mess with anyone in her family- especially Jane, Ruth or Dot, who aren't good at protecting themselves.
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Phryne Fisher / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Phryne Fisher / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: A very low-key (but no less awesome) example: the Blue Cat Club is an impeccably-run gentleman's/gay club (it's got two circles: the outer circle are men who just like to hang out with other guys in a place that doesn't require impeccable manners, and the inner circle is a group of gay men who like to hang out, be themselves, hook up and eat amazing French food) that sounds like a cross between the Windsor Hotel and a museum.
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Phryne Fisher / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Phryne Fisher / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The soldiers in Murder In Montparnasse. They are not happy when two of them are murdered.
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Phryne Fisher / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
Phryne Fisher / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: Backyard abortionist 'Butcher George' in Cocaine Blues.
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Phryne Fisher / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Phryne Fisher / int_c75df49a	comment	Urn Burial is a classic Shout-Out to Agatha Christie- a large, varied ensemble of characters come together in a certain location, all of whom have secrets, and end up entangled in a mystery that becomes steadily more complex. It's even got a little old lady who's a private detective named Mary Mead.
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Phryne Fisher / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Phryne Fisher / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Phryne works as a private detective - mostly to stave off boredom, but also because she has a natural talent as a detective, despite being wealthy enough not to have to work at all.
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Phryne Fisher / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Phryne Fisher / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Ruth finds out that her father was James Murray. They get on pretty well.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Phryne Fisher / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: It's a plot point in Ruddy Gore that Dorothea Curtis adored hyacinths, and was always wearing their scent. In one of the later books, Phryne wrongly remembers her favourite flower as being violets. The series occasionally contains the same quips, presented as though they are entirely original, or call backs to earlier books, also presented as if they are original, suggesting that Greenwood (or her editor, if she has one) doesn't go back and check. In Murder and Mendelssohn, one of Phryne's accomplishments is supposedly finding 'a treasure in Castlemaine'. The treasure in question was found by Lin Chung, and while Phryne did know about the search for the treasure, Lin Chung found it entirely without input from Phryne whatsoever. In Death In Daylesford, Ember is referred to as a female kitten. In all prior appearances, he was male, and given the time in-universe between his first appearance (Murder On The Ballarat Train) and Death In Daylesford, he should be either fully grown or almost fully grown.
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Phryne Fisher / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Phryne Fisher / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Regarding Phryne's brother Thos Fisher, "the future Baron of Richmond-upon-Thames would be a worthy heir to the present one."
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Phryne Fisher / int_cc3ee157	type	DifferentAsNightAndDay
Phryne Fisher / int_cc3ee157	comment	Different as Night and Day: Jane and Ruth. Jane is a slim blonde who likes reading and learning, is incredibly intelligent, intends to be a doctor, has little to no empathy for most people and will read anything, but she prefers scientific texts most of all. Ruth is a plump brunette who likes cooking, is smart but not as academically brilliant, intends to be a cook, is very compassionate and likes romances. They get along brilliantly, though. Phryne and Eliza. Physically, Phryne takes after their slim, dark-haired mother while Eliza takes after their big, fair father. Phryne is an urban sophisticate Femme Fatale, while Eliza is a charity worker who loves doing good. After a bad start in The Castlemaine Murders, they end up resolving their differences and getting along famously. And Phryne goes through men like wildfire, while Eliza is a monogamous lesbian.
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Phryne Fisher / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Phryne Fisher / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Sylvia Lee in Raisins and Almonds is arrested for murder in part because she insists on keeping her composure after a man drops dead in her shop.
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Phryne Fisher / int_cddc61ac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
Phryne Fisher / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: Phryne and Bert do this to avoid detection in Little Lonsdale Street in Cocaine Blues.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Phryne Fisher / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title
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Phryne Fisher / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Phryne Fisher / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: John Wilson from Murder and Mendelssohn is gay, but is attracted to Phryne and has no idea why she's the exception.
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Phryne Fisher / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Phryne Fisher / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Phryne does a lot of things normal people shouldn't be able to, such as taking a Chinese man (who gets married) as a lover, dressing scandalously (at least for 1928) and employing and adopting people from the streets. It's justified because as a rich, powerful, connected woman with very few secrets who doesn't care about what people think of her, Phryne is unaffected by the effect these acts should have on her reputation. Although it's not without repercussions- Mr Butler nearly resigns in Murder in Montparnasse when Lin Chung gets married but Phryne doesn't leave him, and there's a number of scenes where people react aversely to Phryne's habits (like when Evelyn puts her and Lin in rooms at opposite ends of the house because she doesn't like Chinese, in Urn Burial).
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Phryne Fisher / int_d483114e	type	Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite
Phryne Fisher / int_d483114e	comment	Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite: Deconstructed in Blood and Circuses. Mr. Christopher the intersex circus performer attracts a wide range of admirers, but it does not end well. In the "murdered by his Abhorrent Admirer who considered Christopher his "perfect woman" even though Christopher lived as a man when he wasn't performing and already had a a fiancee" sense of "not ending well."
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Phryne Fisher / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
Phryne Fisher / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: Tinker, a kid Phryne ends up taking in after Dead Man's Chest.
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Phryne Fisher / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Phryne Fisher / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Phryne.
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Phryne Fisher / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Phryne Fisher / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Phryne usually calls Jack Robinson "Jack dear" once they've worked together enough to establish a friendship.note Note that this is not a Ship Tease — Jack Robinson in the TV adaptation was Promoted to Love Interest.
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Phryne Fisher / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
Phryne Fisher / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: Phryne was originally said to have been born in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. Later books changed this to Richmond, a nearby suburb. (Those familiar with Melbourne's geography may note that both these answers could be true if Phryne was born at the intersection of Victoria Parade and Hoddle Street.) It's never made exactly clear how many siblings Phryne has- the only one who's appeared on screen is Eliza. There's been mentions of a sister who died and a younger brother, Thos, but there's also been mentions (but no details) of at least one more living sister and brother.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e08ada88	type	Famous-Named Foreigner
Phryne Fisher / int_e08ada88	comment	Famous-Named Foreigner: Per the author's note to Ruddy Gore, Lin Chung is named after one of the main characters of Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh (usually rendered as Lin Chong).
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Phryne Fisher / int_e0dc6390	type	Go Among Mad People
Phryne Fisher / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: Turns out to be what happened to Alicia Waddington-Forsythe in Death at Victoria Dock, as her stepmother sent her to be institutionalized by a Freudian who assumed her experiences with incest — including her brother sleeping with her stepmother — were part of an Oedipus complex.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Phryne Fisher / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: Lin Chung dresses as an Anglican clergyman in The Castlemaine Murders to allow him to pass without comment in white society. Phryne finds the sight of him in clerical garb quite arousing.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Phryne Fisher / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Lin Chung. Everyone calls him Lin, including Phryne.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Phryne Fisher / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Ms Prout in Away With The Fairies decides to answer the really dangerous letters sent to the magazine she works for. This sounds harmless, except that she has absolutely no knowledge about any of the things she's talking about. Combine this with her pompous morals, and her letter-answering career ends up nearly destroying a marriage, getting a woman with a very sick child sacked and indirectly leading to the suicide of a woman suffering from post-natal depression- and those are just the ones we hear about.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Phryne Fisher / int_e303d198	comment	Away With The Fairies is a Whole-Plot Reference to Murder Must Advertise, with Phryne working in an office to discover who murdered one of the employees (another employee who the victim was blackmailing). It also features Nutrax for the Nerves and a character named Prout.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Phryne Fisher / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Murder and Mendelssohn introduces an old friend of Phryne and his unrequited love interest, who are so obviously BBC's Sherlock Holmes and John Watson that the author even wrote a bit at the end explaining why.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e5a0c74a	type	Lady of Adventure
Phryne Fisher / int_e5a0c74a	comment	Lady of Adventure: Phryne, and everyone in the Adventuresses' Club, fittingly.
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Phryne Fisher / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
Phryne Fisher / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Mr. and Mrs. Butler.
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Phryne Fisher / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Phryne Fisher / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Phryne's douchebag father.
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Phryne Fisher / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Ruth's obsession with romances, up until it gets her into trouble in Queen Of The Flowers; after that the romances mostly vanish. Also, Dot's fear/mistrust of the telephone. In the early books, Phryne has to keep telling people that her car is a Hispano-Suiza. "See the stork on the radiator cap?" In Raisins and Almonds, characters repeating themselves with the emphasis on a different word each time. In The Castlemaine Murders, "Bury him under the hydrangeas." "But we don't have any hydrangeas."
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Phryne Fisher / int_fa068232	comment	Bodybag Trick: Used by the Exit organisation in Blood and Circuses to smuggle a prisoner out of prison in a coffin.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Walter Copeland in Ruddy Gore is generally hard to get along with, but his will leaves a large sum of money to a little boy who works at the theater in order to encourage his acting.
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Phryne Fisher / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish /Elective Broken Language: Lampshaded when Lin Chung plays 'stage Chinaman', usually to tease Phryne. She isn't amused.
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