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The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.
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Death of a Ghost, Margery Allingham
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- Released
- 1986
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- Title
- Death of a Ghost
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Margery Allingham
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140084231
- ISBN13
- 9780140084238
- Series
- Albert Campion Mysteries
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, Detective Fiction, British Literature, Detective
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.