'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: "Queen of the Flowers"

This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries cold open gets straight to the point, as the body of a young girl washes up on the beach in the dark. She's one of the disadvantaged girls Phryne is teaching social graces to, along with Jane and Marie (Eva Lazzaro), in preparation for the Flower Show. Considering Marie is more interested in what she can palm off the breakfast table, lessons are less than successful. Rose (Taylor Ferguson), another student, interrupts, late for lessons and without the fourth student, Kitty, who never showed where they meet at the bathing boxes. Determined to round up all her charges, Fisher declares they'll all go to the beach.

Robinson: A liar, an arsonist, and a flower maiden. I'm beginning to appreciate Miss Fisher's challenge.

It isn't long before they find Kitty's body, and Robinson is called in. Jane is shaken, insisting Kitty was a strong swimmer. Marie tells Robinson it's suicide over a boy, but Jane and Rose call that nonsense, though Jane admits Kitty collapsed a few days ago. The only address on file for her is the same as Rose's. She says Kitty used to be employed by her grandfather as a laundrymaid but hadn't worked for them in some time. She stubbornly refuses to say why Kitty called her to meet at the beach before Miss Fisher's class.