A small town detective investigates into a Sociology professor when a mutilated body is found and women have gone missing from his class.

Phryne Fisher sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.

咆哮的二十年代下的墨尔本，芙莱妮·费雪 (Phryne Fisher, Essie Davis 饰), 一位独具韵味的摩登女侦探，凭着自己的机智幽默与一把珍珠左轮，游走于纵情声色的花街酒巷，替无助的弱势群体为正义而战。

A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer. They will try to uncover a quiet town's grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.

Jeremy（又称Powder）的母亲在去医院的路上，不幸被雷电击中。在生下全身无毛像一个白化病人一样的Powder（肖恩·派特里克·弗兰纳里 Sean Patrick Flanery 饰）后她来就去世了。而Powder遭到了父亲的厌恶与抛弃。祖父母抚养了Powde…

年轻夫妇马克（Stephen Cromwell 饰）和莎拉（Niamh Algar 饰）驱车外出度假，当他们开到爱尔兰某郡的偏远乡村时，却迷失了前进的方向，汽车更在昏暗的小路上抛锚。万般无奈，马克独自前往附近的村庄寻求帮助，谁知竟在一户人家里发现脖…

　　三个恐怖短篇小说，包括：一个女人试图抢劫坟墓时遇到的故事；一个女人把她的儿子从死里召回的故事（完全照搬死亡之夜 Dead of Night (1977)中的第三个故事）；以及一个非洲娃娃复活的故事。