The Honourable Phryne Fisher ( often called “Miss Fisher”) is a wealthy aristocrat who lives in St Kilda, Melbourne in 1928. She is a 28-year-old (born 1900) detective who, with the assistance of her maid Dot, and Bert and Cec (who are wharfies, taxi drivers and red raggers), solves all manner of crimes as a quintessentially Australian construction. Phryne is no ordinary aristocrat, as she can fly a plane, drives her own car (a Hispano-Suiza) and sometimes wears trousers. However, while displaying bohemian panache, she manages also to maintain style and class. Her personality seems to match exactly that of her 4th century BC namesake, Phryne