Readers’ Corner 3
If you are a mystery buff, check out the Phryne Fisher stories and the television show based on them. They are most excellent stories which lean more to cozies than to any other sub-genre.
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If you are a mystery buff, check out the Phryne Fisher stories and the television show based on them. They are most excellent stories which lean more to cozies than to any other sub-genre.
July 16, 2015 at 5:50 am
I find the series to be okay compared to others in the genre that stir in some humor . . . uh, humour . . . like Midsomer and Brokenwood. Kind of predictable plots and not particularly deep, but oh Miss Fisher’s legs!
July 16, 2015 at 8:16 am
Yeah, it’s definitely a cozy; the humor (humour?) is more important than the plot. The Doctor Blake Mysteries, also from Australia, is much more serious and very well acted.
I enjoy Midsomer also. Their plots seem to take a hard left turn into uncharted territory just before the solution, but the writing and acting are superior. I think many of the British mystery shows are so good because they don’t have as heavy a schedule as American ones, so the writers have more time to get it right. Morse produced 38 episodes over 18 years and remains one of the best mystery shows every to hit television.
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July 17, 2015 at 5:23 am
I agree. Corpse for corpse, Morse is the best.