A Fair Corpse
An Art of Murder Mystery
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2026
254 pages
979-8-89820-198-2 (ISBN)
Description
All's fair in love, art-and murder.
It's the spring of 1939, and the New York World's Fair is nearly ready to open. Its visionary theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," promises a peaceful and prosperous future. But that bright prospect is darkened by war clouds gathering over Europe and the rise of the German-American Bund. Against this backdrop, NYPD officer Brian F.X. Fitzgerald investigates a series of mishaps involving mural painters working at the Fair. He suspects sabotage, and when one of them is killed, he's sure it wasn't an accident. Guided by a beautiful artist who becomes his lover, Fitz digs deep into the art world's rivalries to solve the mystery of the murdered muralist.
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During her career as director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York, Helen began writing mystery novels set in the art world. A widely published author of books and articles on art, she enjoys making up stories in which fictional characters interact with real people from her own background and experience as a New York Times art critic, NPR arts commentator, museum curator, and practicing artist. Her second novel, An Accidental Corpse, won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Mystery & Suspense. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, she and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor, NY, with the ghost of Roy's beloved studio cat, Mittens.
