In this novel set in the late 1920s, Phryne Fisher, a young Australian detective, is asked to investigate the murder of a man who died in a bookshop. The woman who owns the shop, Sylvia Lee, has been arrested, mostly because she seemed too calm when handling the aftermath of her customer's death. Ben Abrahams, her rich Jewish landlord, also the father of a young man Phryne currently has her appetite set on, has asked Phryne to solve the murder.The dead man was Jewish, and in his wallet were several letters in a different language, plus scraps of parchment with unusual drawings. Phryne, her beau Simon, and much of her household get into sorting out the facts. Phryne meets a cantankerous Rabbi, as well as several young men in the Jewish community who seem to be withholding information that could help solve the case, even as Phryne's knowledge of the Jewish religion increases and issues of Zionism are hashed out.
I especially enjoyed this book since I recently finished watching all three seasons of the "Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries" on dvd, based roughly on Greenwood's books.
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