Artists In Crime

Ngaio Marsh

Dec 2008 · Inspector Alleyn Book 6 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch

About this audiobook

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead, fixed for ever in one of the most dramatic poses Troy has ever seen.

It's a difficult case for Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn. How can he believe that the woman he loves is a murderess? And yet no one can be above suspicion...

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was classed as one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' -- female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s.