Artists in Crime: A Roderick Alleyn Mystery, Book 6

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.

©1938 Ngaio Marsh; (P)1994 Blackstone Audiobooks