One of Ngaio Marsh's most famous murder mysteries, which introduces Inspector Alleyn to his future wife, the irrepressible Agatha Troy.
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...
- ISBN10 0515075345
- ISBN13 9780515075342
- Publish Date 1 April 1984 (first published October 1967)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jove Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English