MURDER AT THE PICTURE GALLERY

A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery

von Daphne Norcott

386 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A picture gallery opens for the first time. Its director does not live to see it.Lady Marianne Cranbourne came to the Heronwick Picture Gallery to catalogue a collection, not to investigate a death. Three weeks of provenance work in a converted Georgian dower house, a difficult director, and a hundred and forty-one paintings with almost no paperwork behind them. It should have been the making of her new archival practice.Then, on the morning the doors were due to open, the gallery's director is found in the north corridor with an overturned easel beside him and a cup of coffee gone cold on his desk.The village doctor will not sign a certificate. Twelve founding subscribers have money, reputation, or family pride tied up in the paintings on those walls, and four of those canvases are not what the record says they are. The dead man knew it. He was six pages from proving it. Those six pages have vanished from a locked room, and every person who might have taken them has a reason nobody wants examined.Marianne has one method and it has never failed her: a column with the hours down one side, a source against every line, and the word none written in where there is none. She keeps it faithfully for three weeks. She writes down everything.And that is the trouble. Because the answer has been sitting in her own handwriting since the fourth line, in ink she watched dry, and by the time she reads it back the person who put it there has had every opportunity in the world.If you love clever, warm, fair-play mysteries in the Golden Age tradition, a heroine who is brilliant but gets things wrong in public, and an English village full of secrets, this mystery brings them together.Turn back the clock to the 1920s. Read Murder at the Picture Gallery today.Book Three in the Lady Marianne Cranbourne Murder Mysteries, and fully readable as a standalone. A charming 1920s mystery of secrets, suspicion, and a carefully concealed truth.

• Reihe: MURDER AT THE PICTURE GALLERY
• ISBN: 9798173691477
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published