Raisins and Almonds
A Phryne Fisher Mystery
About this book
In investigating the poisoning of a young man in bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne is plunged into a world ofJewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams, Phryne picks her way through the mystery with the help from the old faithfuls - Bert, Cec, Dot and Detective Inspector 'Call Me Jack' Robinson. -- back cover.
Subjects
- australia, fiction
- bookstores
- bookstores in fiction
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- fisher, phryne (fictitious character), fiction
- jewish families
- jewish families in fiction
- jews
- jews, fiction
- phryne fisher (fictitious character)
- women detectives
- women detectives in fiction