Katti Bostock is the gruff but accomplished painter who is Troy’s roommate. Valmai Seacliff is the beauty who knows it, drawing the men to her like flies. Basil Pilgrim has the (mis)fortune to be the son of a strict religionist peer. Phillida Lee is a country girl turned Bohemian. Cedric Malmsley is a bearded poseur, pretending to more talent than he has yet to evidence. Francis Ormerin is an aloof student from Paris.
The rest are a rag-tag collection of characters.
One of the students, Watt Hatchett, is a rough-around-the-edges Australian Troy has brought back and is sponsoring, recognizing his talent. Troy has turned the back garden into a studio for students who want to train under her, living at her house. It turns out Lady Alleyn lives but a few miles from Agatha Troy’s home and studio Tatter’s End House in Bossicote. Nevertheless artist Agatha Troy paints a striking likeness of Alleyn which he presents to his mother upon his return to England. An untimely interruption onboard ship followed by a brusque brushoff.
Summary: A murder occurs at the studio of artist Agatha Troy, who Alleyn had met on his voyage back to England the beginning in fits and starts of a romance while Alleyn seeks to solve the crime.
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