![]() ![]() A knife was driven through the modeling dais and when Sonia Gluck (the model) was pushed into position the blade went through her heart. They are brought together again when the artist's model hired for the latest class is killed by the very method demonstrated in response to an illustration that one of the students needs to do for a book. He stops at his mother's home not far away for a final respite before returning to London, the Yard, and work. Then when they've both returned to England, she heads to her country home, Tatler's End, where she paints and hosts students and fellow painters. She definitely makes him believe that she doesn't care for him at all. "I had an idea," said the painter, "that if I worked up here on this hideously uncomfortable perch, I might possibly have the place to myself for a bit." Alleyn is on his way back to England by boat from his extended leave and encounters Agatha Troy on the boat deck where they both had sought solitude-he for a quiet, contemplative pipe and she to do a bit of painting away from the other passengers. It'snot exactly an auspicious beginning to a romance. ![]() ![]() In Artists in Crime (1938) Ngaio Marsh introduces Inspector Roderick Alleyn to his future wife. ![]()
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