Artists in Crime
Published on 12. November 2020
298 pages
978-1-937384-28-9 (ISBN)
Description
A model is murdered in this "first-rate" detective story by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (
Kirkus Reviews).
On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn tedious and dull; he thinks she's a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there's a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother's house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, than he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists' community down the road. And the talented Miss Troy is one of the community's most prominent and outspoken members...
"The doyenne of traditional mystery writers." - The New York Times
On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn tedious and dull; he thinks she's a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there's a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother's house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, than he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists' community down the road. And the talented Miss Troy is one of the community's most prominent and outspoken members...
"The doyenne of traditional mystery writers." - The New York Times
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was one of the celebrated queens of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Roderick Alleyn series was successfully adapted for television and was quite popular both in the U.K. and the United States.
Content
- Intro
- Prologue at Sea
- CONTENTS
- 1. Prologue at Sea
- 2. Five Letters
- 3. Class Assembles
- 4. Case for Mr. Alleyn
- 5. Routine
- 6. Sidelights on Sonia
- 7. Alibi for Troy
- 8. Sidelights on Garcia
- 9. Phillida Lee and Watt Hatchett
- 10. Week-end of an Engaged Couple
- 11. Ormerin's Nerves and Sonia's Correspondence
- 12. Malmsley on Pleasure
- 13. Upstairs
- 14. Evidence from a Twig
- 15. Lady of the Ensemble
- 16. Back to the Yard
- 17. The Man at the Table
- 18. One of Five
- 19. Alleyn Makes a Pilgrimage
- 20. Arrest
- 21. Epilogue in a Garden
