YMMV / Phryne Fisher

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Phryne is possessed by Isis in Death By Wicket. This has never come up again, even when she wears a similar outfit in a later book.
• Fridge Brilliance: In the end of Ruddy Gore, the killer is revealed to be Leonard Brawn, the carpenter, who was furious about how much disrespect and bullshit he and the other technicals (tradesmen) got from everyone else. In particular, he says 'Nobody notices technicals'- and Phryne didn't either, only considering the actors as suspects. Guess he was right.
  • Murder and Mendelssohn has a very ordinary-sounding title, until you realize that it's a clue: not only are there murders involving a choir singing Mendelssohn, but the murders were because of Mendelssohn's music- specifically, the murderer was a Mendelssohn purist who disliked the way the victims butchered the music.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The solution to the murder in Flying Too High is that it was an accident- a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time was holding a heavy rock that the deceased stood under, let go of it without realising what would happen, and the impact killed him. The book has everyone accept this as an accident and the book ends happily, but those kids are probably going to be really screwed up, especially given how gory the death was.
• Fridge Horror: As of the latest books, it's 1929. The Great Depression is on the way, and after it is World War Two: By that time, Tinker would be old enough to have fought in said war, and Jane, who wants to be a doctor, might well have ended up as a field surgeon the way Doctor MacMillan did.
• Fridge Logic: What the hell does Phryne do with all of those dresses? With the way she acquires them, you'd think her wardrobe wouldn't be able to take any more.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The letters at the end of each chapter of Death by Water turn out to be from passengers on the Titanic, though at least some of them end up not going.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Bad Lip Reading made a spoof of Gotye's song 'Somebody I Used To Know' which has the line 'Miss Fisher don't think that I'm pretty'. Phryne probably would, actually.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In Ruddy Gore, a weight is dropped from a large height onto the stage it was hanging above, intended to hit Phryne or the lead actor. Instead, it hits Prompt, who is crushed. Thankfully, no description is given.
  • Jane's story. She was hypnotized, she saw her grandmother commit suicide, and she was sent to a brothel- and then she saw a woman hanged on the way. Thank God Phryne rescued her.
  • Lin Chung being kidnapped by pirates and maimed.
  • The beginning of Blood and Circuses: A man is stabbed, and the blood ends up dripping through the damaged ceiling... and landing in his landlady's cup of tea. She only realizes this after she finished it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Madame Selavy from Dead Man's Chest, who is an incredibly interesting character but does nothing important and raises a lot of questions that don't get answered. Damn it.
• Toy Ship: Jane and Kiwi in Dead Man's Chest, mainly due to their shared love of science.

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