**An ingenious killer with a penchant for rare books is targeting the Crescent City's elite in this 1930s mystery by the authors of _The Invisible Host_.** A distressing rumor is circulating through New Orleans that one of the city's prized artifacts--a fragment of the Gutenberg Bible--has been st
The Art School Murders: A Golden Age Mystery
β Scribed by Moray Dalton
- Book ID
- 110926128
- Publisher
- Dean Street Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781913054861
- ASIN
- B0842YZ4W6
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."
Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as something of a femme fatale. But the phrase becomes only too literal. What initially appears to be red paint leads instead to Althea's dead body, murdered in Morosini's renowned school of art. Hugh Collier of Scotland Yard is called in, but two more murder victims follow, one of them a female student at the school, stabbed to death at a cinema. After many a twist, Collier selects the right piece in the puzzle to identify a murderer operating under cover of England's World War Two black-out.
It is a pleasure to accompany Hugh Collier in The Art School Murders as he suavely but relentlessly pursues, and finally brings to justice, a diabolically callous killer. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
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