Query: Crime books about the arts, but not popular culture books
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Final Curtain (novel)
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
The Blind Man of Seville
The Documents in the Case
Artists in Crime
The Sunday Woman
Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue
Death of a Ghost
The Five Red Herrings
Killing Critics
Evidence from documents: Final Curtain (novel): a 1947 crime novel by the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh, the fourteenth in her series of mysteries featuring Scotland Yard detective Roderick Alleyn. It was published in Britain by Collins and in the USA by Little, Brown. Although set in a large English country house, immediately after the 2nd World War, it is effectively one of Ngaio Marsh's crime stories with a theatrical setting, given that it concerns Alleyn's wife Agatha Troy accepting a commission to paint a portrait of the great actor Sir Henry Ancred in the role of Macbeth, onstage at the theatre of his ancestral home, Ancreton Manor, to be unveiled at his 70th birthday party, amongst his family, most of whom are actively involved in the London theatre, one way or another.
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues: The book deals in shifting or hidden identities, crime, loss, and the meaning and purpose of art. Several characters go by pseudonyms, and others are haunted by their own unusual names.
The Blind Man of Seville: '''''The Blind Man of Seville''''' is a 2003 crime novel and thriller by British writer Robert Wilson.
The Documents in the Case: This is an epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters, using the multiple narrative technique associated with Modernist novelists of the period. This collection of documents—hence the novel's title—is explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father.


Novelist John Munting shares, with former public school contemporary and talented painter Harwood Lathom, a rented top floor flat in respectably suburban Bayswater, London
Artists in Crime: '''''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. The plot concerns the murder of an artists' model; Alleyn's love interest Agatha Troy is introduced.
The Sunday Woman: Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual, who, while playing an intellectual game, had the architect Garrone killed in a letter. Later in the novel, Campi's boyfriend, Lello, a municipal clerk who was investigating by himself on the murder, is also killed.
Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue: Crime books: '''''Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue''''' (1987) is a crime novel by Cornish writer W. J. Burley.
about the arts: When Wycliffe yields no clues after the reading of the old man's mischievously contrived will, the only leads he's left with are the mysterious artist's pigment known as Winsor Blue, and the death of Gifford Tate, a fellow painter and friend of Edwin's, several years before...
Death of a Ghost: Crime books: a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in February 1934, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York.
about the arts, but not popular culture books: At the former home of John Lafcadio, the great painter dead some 18 years, the annual ceremony to unveil a painting he left behind to keep his memory alive is interrupted by a murder. Suspicion falls on a family member, but with no proof the police are baffled. When murder once again visits "Little Venice", Albert Campion must exercise all his powers to bring the killer to justice...
The Five Red Herrings: The novel is set in Galloway, a part of Scotland popular with artists (Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony) and recreational fishermen. Sandy Campbell is a talented painter, but also a notoriously quarrelsome drunkard. When he is found dead in a stream, with a still-wet half-finished painting on the bank above, it is assumed that he fell in accidentally, fracturing his skull. Lord Peter Wimsey, who is in the region on a fishing holiday, suspects murder when he realises that something is missing from the scene which makes it impossible for Campbell to have worked on the painting.
Killing Critics: Crime books about the arts, but not popular culture books: Mallory investigates the murder of Dean Starr, an artist killed in the middle of an exhibition. The killer made the murder appear to be performance art.
Crime books: '''Killing Critics''' is the third book in the Kathleen Mallory series written by Carol O'Connell.