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* [[The Butcher]]: Backyard abortionist 'Butcher George' in ''Cocaine Blues''.
* [[Clueless Mystery]]: Occurs often. For example, in ''Murder In The Dark'', the abductor is revealed to be {{spoiler|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.
* [[Conviction Byby Counterfactual Clue]]: One of the things that leads Phryne to believe that the abductor in ''Murder In The Dark'' was {{spoiler|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.
* [[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.
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: {{spoiler|[[Lampshade|lampshaded]] in ''Murder in Montparnasse''}}
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** Basically, all Chinese matriarchs are like this. Hell, all Chinese elderly women are like this.
* [[Food Porn]]: Often.
* [[Friend Onon the Force]]: Detective Inspector "Call me Jack" Robinson.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Jane, one of Phryne's adopted daughters.
* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]: Most of the stories are set in 1928 (the most recent books are set in 1929). Phryne reads both [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] (she is reading ''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'' during ''Murder in the Dark'') and [[Dorothy L. Sayers]].
* [[Girl Friday]]: Dot Williams, Phryne's confidential maid and companion.
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: The {{spoiler|mute in a cornet}} is used as a blowgun in ''The Green Mill Murder''.
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* [[Society Marches On]]: In ''The Castlemaine Murders'', Eliza has a secret she finally confesses to Phryne: {{spoiler|she's a socialist- and also, as we find out later, a lesbian.}} This doesn't seem like much to modern viewers, but the idea of a noble woman being {{spoiler|a lesbian socialist}} would have huge repercussions for Eliza and her entire family in the day.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Ruth, Phryne's other adopted daughter.
* [[Thriller Onon the Express]]: ''Murder on the Ballarat Train''. Zig-zagged in that while there is indeed a murder on the train to Ballarat, most of the action takes place in Melbourne.
* [[Title Drop]]: In ''Away With The Fairies'', Phryne describes Ms Lavender as being totally away with the fairies- that is, insane.
* [[True Companions]]: The soldiers in ''Murder In Montparnasse''. They are ''not'' happy when two of them are murdered.
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