![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the awkwardness of the first encounter, they strike a friendship of sorts and discover that they will not be too far from each other when they get to Blighty. It being the 1930s he makes his journey by boat and after leaving Fiji the sleuth has an awkward encounter with a young artist, a Royal Academician no less, who is painting a scene of the harbour. The book starts with Alleyn making his way back from his sojourn in New Zealand, a busman’s holiday as he was dragooned in to solve the murder featured in Vintage Murder. ![]() We are introduced to Agatha Troy, later to become Mrs Roderick Alleyn. Perhaps it is because it is almost as much a love story as a piece of detective fiction. This is the sixth, published in 1938, and is the best so far. Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been struggling with Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn books. ![]()
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