Handsome, Jewish Simon Abraham made a nice distraction for a while. Phryne and Simon entered a dance contest and would have won if Phryne had been Jewish. When a Jewish student was poisoned in "Lee's Books New and Secondhand," Simon's father Benjamin Abraham asked Phryne Fisher to investigate. Benjamin owns the building housing the bookstore. Miss Sylvia Lee ran a quiet and neat establishment. When the body was removed, Miss Lee swept and cleaned, bringing suspicion upon herself. Phryne agrees to look into the matter for ten quid a day. She warns Benjamin that she will tell him only the truth. It may be that a "Jew murdered a Jew." The investigation takes Phryne deep into the Jewish community, politics, and culture.
This isn't my favorite of the series. Too much emphasis on the Jewishness of Phryne's latest young lover, the victim, the suspects and their interest in Middle Eastern politics and I even guessed right about the villain.
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