Sonia is a temperamental model who often breaks her uncomfortable pose on her throne, which requires Troy or another student to shove her shoulder down back in place. Letters back to England from Troy and Alleyn establish their hesitant initial, awkward acquaintance.īack in England, Troy hosts her art class consisting of eight students who paint and sculpt model Sonia Gluck. Alleyn falls in love with Troy at first sight but she initially finds him irritating. Among the passengers are the painter Agatha Troy, who is painting the receding wharf at Suva, discreetly observed by Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn returning from his last case in New Zealand. The novel opens aboard a passenger ship en route from New Zealand to Vancouver via Hawaii. The plot concerns the murder of an artists' model Alleyn's love interest Agatha Troy is introduced. Artists in Crime is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh it is the sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1938.
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