Phineas Finn returns to Parliament only to be framed for the murder of his rival Mr. Bonteen, and Trollope turns the back half of his Palliser series into a courtroom drama, with Madame Max Goesler racing to dig up the evidence that saves Phineas from the gallows.
Books mentioned in Phineas Redux (4)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Bouncer did not condescend to do more than nod his head. "There is a murder described in _Hamlet_.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “Do you remember the arrangements for the murder in _Macbeth_?”
Othello by William Shakespeare: “He's an Othello now with a vengeance, for his occupation is gone.”
Eugene Aram by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “And Eugene Aram, when he murdered a man in Bulwer's novel, turned the matter over in his mind before he did it?"”