Description

A country-house killing, creative perception and the post war gathering of Alleyn and Troy mix in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable book. Agatha Troy, renowned portrait artist, is inveigled into taking a commission to paint the 70-year-old Friend Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the phase. But just like she's finished her face, the aged actor dies. The remarkable circumstances of his death are so that Scotland Yard is known as in -- in the individual of Troyis long-missing spouse, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn!