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
