Raisins and almonds - Poisoned Pen Press (UK)
Raisins and almonds - Poisoned Pen Press (UK) Raisins and almonds - Poisoned Pen Press (UK)
Raisins and Almonds 14 something to sell, but we are not fools. We needed to exchange information with an intermediary without him knowing who we were. So we left the notes in Miss Lee’s shop, because we know that she will never sell the books in the corner. Shimeon must have tried to retrieve the paper. Someone killed him for it. It is lost,’ he said desolately. ‘But it is not gone forever, while you still have Yossi,’ said Phryne. There was another silence, in which Louis mastered another phrase of the adagio of his violin concerto. ‘He can’t remember what he did,’ wailed Solly suddenly, clutching at his forehead. ‘Once, he got it to work once, and he noted down all the proportions, but he tried to repeat it and it doesn’t work. And now Shimeon is dead and someone has the compound!’ ‘Tell him to keep trying,’ urged Phryne. ‘Tell him to repeat the experiment and vary the ingredients. I don’t suppose you feel like telling me either what you were selling or to whom you were selling it?’ They shook their heads. ‘So Shimeon went to deposit the paper and he died. And you haven’t seen the paper since?’ ‘No,’ David replied. ‘All right. Tell Yossi to keep working. Remember also that it might be better to register the patent the usual way. When you get the money, you can always buy guns for Palestine with the proceeds. Now, I want to see all of your shoes.’ ‘Our shoes?’ asked Isaac, bewildered. ‘You want to look at our shoes?’ ‘If you please,’ said Phryne, quietly determined. One by one they removed their shoes and Phryne inspected them. Leather soles retained particles of white china, such as studded her own soles from the broken cup. But not one of the shoes she was shown, from Simon’s immaculate Oxfords to Isaac’s broken and unpolished ex-army boots, showed a crumb of red, blue or gold from Mrs. Katz’s plate.
144 Kerry Greenwood She returned their footwear and stood up. ‘If you decide to tell me more,’ she informed the group, ‘you can always find me at this address.’ She gave David Kaplan her card. He was still staring at it as Louis played Phryne and Simon out with the first strains of Ravel’s flamin’ Bolero.
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144 Kerry Greenwood<br />
She returned their footwear <strong>and</strong> stood up.<br />
‘If you decide to tell me more,’ she informed the group, ‘you can<br />
always find me at this address.’ She gave David Kaplan her card.<br />
He was still staring at it as Louis played Phryne <strong>and</strong> Simon<br />
out with the first strains of Ravel’s flamin’ Bolero.
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