Artists In Crime, Ngaio Marsh
Artists In Crime, Ngaio Marsh
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Artists In Crime

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Philip Franks

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime


Synopsis

When murder upsets the creative tranquility of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. And what begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn's career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects - the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection....

Artists in Crime was first published in 1938.

About Ngaio Marsh

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cyndi

A really good murder mystery. Inspector Alleyn meets an artist and falls in love. Meanwhile a model is murdered in front of a group of artist but it takes Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard to find the killer. P. S. The brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch read it on youtube. Yay!!......more