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Ngaio Marsh
Artists in Crime HARPER An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2009 Artists in Crime first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1938 Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1938 Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works A catalogie record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780006512561 Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2009 ISBN 9780007344444 VersionL 2016-10-20
For Phyllis and John
Table of Contents
Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, CID
Miss Van Maes
The success of the ship
Agatha Troy, RA
Of Tatler’s End House, Bossicote, Bucks. Painter
Katti Bostock
Well-known painter of plumbers and Negro musicians
Nigel Bathgate
Journalist
Lady Alleyn
Of Danes Lodge, Bossicote, Bucks; mother of Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn
Cedric Malmsley
A student with a beard
Garcia
A sculptor
Sonia Gluck
A model
Francis Ormerin
A student from Paris
Phillida Lee
A student from the Slade
Watt Hatchett
A student from Australia
The Hon. Basil Pilgrim
A student from the nobility
Valmai Seacliff
A student with sex-appeal
Superintendent Blackman
Of the Buckingham Constabulary
Detective-Inspector Fox, CID
Detective-Sergeant Bailey, CID
A fingerprint expert
Detective-Sergeant Thompson, CID
A photographic expert
Dr Ampthill
Police surgeon at Bossicote, Bucks.
PC Sligo
Of Bossicote Police Force
A charlady
Bobbie O’Dawne
A lady of the Ensemble
An estate agent
Ted McCully
Foreman at a car depot
Dr Curtis
Police surgeon, CID
Captain Pascoe
Of Boxover
His servant
