History Characters / MissFishersMurderMysteries

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:He kills his horribly abusive foster mother by having her incinerated and lets everyone else believe it was the other way around, and given he wasn't the only one she abused it's safe to say she wasn't quite undeserving of this fate.]]

* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Secretly reads ladies' magazines (as he eagerly wanted to read the continuation of the {{fantasy}} story in the episode ''Away with the Fairies'' which was only in the InUniverse women's magazine, and apparently the story was so sappy [[TheCutie Dot]] was in [[ClosetGeek denial]] of reading it and Phryne outright disliked it). He also bakes cookies, which he keeps hidden in his office as seen in the episode ''Dead Air''. Apparently EverybodyKnewAlready as even [[GeniusDitz Dot]] knew, it was only a matter of time before they found them (and ate them all).

* DirtyOldMan: Subverted. In "Death At The Grand", he is seen entertaining a maid at his hotel, with Phryne assuming that he is trying to seduce her. He's also outraged by her death, challenging the presumed killer to a duel. However, as it turns out, the two of them didn't have any sexual interactions on screen (with the maid noting that she knows he's "spoken for"), and simply got along well together. Also, Henry later tells Phryne he's never been interested in anyone except his wife - and while Phryne is usually entirely willing to call him out when he's lying, she notably doesn't that time.

A street-urchin who Phryne ends up adopting, in large part because Jane reminds her of herself.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Of course, she insists that her madness behind the wheel is just a high level of skill at driving.[[note]] In the books, it's mentioned she learned to drive on the battlefields, where she was an ambulance driver[[/note]] While usually PlayedForLaughs, it's PlayedForDrama in one episode when, at the start, Jack is called to a crime scene where a fast car with a dark-haired woman at the wheel is wrapped around a tree, and tries DrowningHisSorrows to get over the shock.

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* EmotionalBruiser: Both of them, though [[BruiserWithASoftCentre Cec is more inclined to hide it]], while Cec - as Bert grumbles - picks up strays wherever he goes.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Working or not, they're rarely seen apart. In one episode, Cec falls into a funk when he thinks that Bert will get married and end their partnership.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Jack.
** At the end of season 3 [[spoiler: TheyDo]].

* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Phryne.
** At the end of season 3 [[spoiler: TheyDo]].

* DawsonCasting: Phryne Fisher was born in 1900, bringing her in her late-20s at the moment the story is set. Essie Davis was in her early-40s when filming began. While Mrs. Davis is a great beauty, she still plays Miss Fisher with attitudes, facial expressions and style of speech more appropriate for middle age than for a younger one.

-->'''Jack''': I don't need to marry you. I just need your heart... because God knows you've got mine.
-->'''Phryne''': Jack -- I gave you that a long time ago. [[DeadpanSnarker For a detective you don't notice much.]]
-->[''[[TheBigDamnKiss he kisses her passionately]]'']

* MissingMom: Or, rather, MissingAunt: As of the sequel series, Phryne has gone missing (and been declared and presumed dead) sometime in the 1960s.

* BrokenPedestal: To [[spoiler: George Sanderson, his boss and former father-in-law, after he caught him covering up Sydney Fletcher's sex slaving operation.]]

-->'''Phryne''': What evidence do you have that it was ''me'' who broke into the bookshop?
-->'''Jack''': An [[CoolCar Hispano-Suiza]] parked outside at the time.
-->'''Phryne''': If a tree falls in a forest --
-->'''Jack''': -- you were very likely somewhere close by wielding the axe.

* FairCop

* GrandeDame: An archetypal example.

* OldMoney: And oh, how it shows - for both good and ill.

* ThoseTwoGuys: They're rarely seen apart.

** Taken UpToEleven in "Game, Set, and Murder" when he's given a direct order not to solve crimes with "civilians" (meaning Phryne.) So [[spoiler: he deputizes her, making her technically not a civilian.]]

* [[TheDutifulSon The Dutiful Daughter]]: Especially in comparison to her sister Nancy/[[PornNames Lola]].

* CoolHat: His brown fedora, which he wears everywhere. It suffers HatDamage in one episode, leading to Phryne buying him an identical replacement.

* {{Irony}}: Jack, the generally straight-as-an-arrow ByTheBookCop in a 20s set PI series, is the one who wears the BadassLongCoat and [[CoolHat sharp fedora]] - the traditional uniform of a rule-breaking fictional PI.