Set in swinging '60s Melbourne, the gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew, Phryne Fisher, goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine sets out to become a world-class private detective in her own right with the unerring guidance of The Adventuresses' Club, a group of exceptional women of which her celebrated aunt was a member. A natural rule breaker, Peregrine is fearless, fun, and charmingly down-to-earth. Despite failing at a number of jobs - hairdresser, typist and sales girl - her survival instincts have kept her afloat. Armed with an impressive collection of life skills and having recently lost her dependent mother, Peregrine is perfectly poised for a new and challenging life and looking for a sense of belonging. She's a self-starter with an innate curiosity, moral integrity and an acute sense of justice; all of which delivers her an instinct for solving crimes. With newfound wealth and The Adventuresses to hone her rough edges and become the family she's never had, Peregrine is unstoppable.

When a pop star singer and his back-up singer are electrocuted during their surf-inspired spot on a TV music show, Peregrine's ex-boyfriend Eric is under suspicion for their deaths.

Peregrine ventures into the world of a top-secret science facility run by the government where Cecile Armand, an old comrade of Birdie's, is found frozen to death in a crashed car.

Peregrine gets a lesson in all things culinary when celebrated head chef at Samuel's ex-mother-in-law's international cookery school, Graham King, is murdered.

Peregrine ventures into the world of a top-secret science facility run by the government where Cecile Armand, an old comrade of Birdie's, is found frozen to death in a crashed car.

Peregrine ventures into the world of a top-secret science facility run by the government where Cecile Armand, an old comrade of Birdie's, is found frozen to death in a crashed car.

Peregrine gets a lesson in all things culinary when celebrated head chef at Samuel's ex-mother-in-law's international cookery school, Graham King, is murdered.

Peregrine gets a lesson in all things culinary when celebrated head chef at Samuel's ex-mother-in-law's international cookery school, Graham King, is murdered.