The Fig Eater: A Novel
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ISBN: 0316785261 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, March 2001
A police inspector investigates the murder of a beautiful young girl in early twentieth-century Vienna, while his Hungarian wife and a teenage English governess pursue their own probe into the case.
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When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 Vienna, the Inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer--for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year.
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