"So glamorous it's criminal."
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Phryne Fisher

Detective Inspector Jack Robinson

Shirin Abbas

First Lieutenant Jonathon Lofthouse

Lord 'Lofty' Lofthouse

Lady Eleanor Lofthouse

Prudence Stanley

Sheikh Kahlil Abbas

Crippins

Shirin's Mother

Assist Commissioner Forsythe

Professor Linnaeus

Abdul

Captain Templeton

Mrs. Templeton

Vincent 'Monty' Montague

Constable Hugh Collins

Dorothy ‘Dot’ Collins

Cecil Yates

Bert

Wilson
Frank

Prison Guard

Awkward Young Man

Fleeing Man
Uninformed Constable
Alexandra's Dead Lover
British Captain #2
Photographer
Policeman
British Police Captain
Street Vendor
Young Shirin