'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: "The Green Mill Murder"

The third episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' starts in an alley, where a gunman watches a seedy-looking gentleman caller convince a flower seller to slip off for a roll in the hay. Meanwhile, Phryne is having a night out at The Green Mill jazz hall, complete with a live brass band and singer Nerine Rogers (Deni Hines). Phryne's dressed to dance, but she's really attempting to buy an airplane called a "Tiger Moth." Her date, Charlie Freeman (Toby Schmitz), is selling it cheap. He never learned to fly as his older brother, Vic, who should have taught him, never came back from the war.

When Charlie gets pulled away by a man in glasses and tossed about by the seedy man from earlier, his need for cash starts to look alarming.  But before Phryne can investigate, she's off to dance with the band leader, Tintagel Stone (Simon Lyndon). That's interrupted when the seedy man drops dead in the middle of the dance floor, stabbed. By the time Robinson and Collins show up, Fisher's learned the victim is Leonard Stevens, and his flower girl date is Pansy Shore (Lauren Clair). The murder weapon is missing, but Stevens had rolls of cash on hand.

While waiting to be searched and questioned, Nerine makes fun of Pansy's claim Stevens was going to marry her. When Phryne digs a bit deeper, Nerine admits she didn't know Stevens well, but he'd been hanging around the club since it first opened, and she knows a creep when she sees one. She and her husband, the cornet player Ben (Arthur Angel), recall seeing very little; she was serving drinks, he was on stage. On the other hand, Jack notes Miss Fisher's original date, Charlie, bolted and left the scene as soon as Stevens died.