The Fig Eater

Jody Shields

Original title: The fig eater

earliest edition we have, 2000 Little, Brown, 2000 311 pages

Wheeler large print book series

Vienna, 1910. An eighteen-year-old girl named Dora (loosely inspired by Freud's famous patient Dora) is found brutally murdered in the Volksgarten Park. The crime is being investigated by the Inspector, newly schooled in rationalist criminology. Meanwhile, his Hungarian wife, Erszebet, driven by Gypsy superstition, and Wally, a teenage English governess, secretly conduct a parallel investigation based on their female...

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The Fig Eater paperback · 2001 · Back Bay Books · 368 pages · 9780316785266
The Fig Eater ebook · 2001 · Little, Brown and Company · 9780759562097
The fig eater edition · 2001 · Wheeler Pub. · 432 pages
The fig eater edition · 2000 · Doubleday · 288 pages
The fig eater edition · 2000 · Little, Brown · 311 pages
The Fig Eater audiobook · 2000 · Warner Adult · 9781570428562

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