Download or read book Artists in Crime written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.