Query: Crime books that about the arts but not about film
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The D Case
Unfinished Portrait (novel)
Death of a Ghost
The Five Red Herrings
Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue
Artists in Crime
The Documents in the Case
Killing Critics
Strangers on a Train (novel)
The Shame of the Cities
The Blind Man of Seville
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
Evidence from documents: The D Case: This is established under the setting of a convention that has been organized by affluent Japanese patrons to finish unfinished works of art
Unfinished Portrait (novel): But, while on an exotic island, Celia meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, who spends a night talking with her, and learning her deepest fears.
Death of a Ghost: '''''Death of a Ghost''''' is a crime novel by Margery Allingham,
The Five Red Herrings: 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.
Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue: ''''Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue''''' (1987) is a crime novel by Cornish writer W. J. Burley.
The Documents in the Case: '''''The Documents in the Case''''' is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. It is the only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. However, the forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock, who appears or is mentioned in several of the Wimsey novels, also appears in ''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.
Killing Critics: '''Killing Critics''' is the third book in the Kathleen Mallory series written by Carol O'Connell.
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.
Strangers on a Train (novel): '''''Strangers on a Train''''' (1950) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders.
The Shame of the Cities: Crime books that about the arts but not about film: It reports on the workings of corrupt political machines in several major U.S. cities, along with a few efforts to combat them. It is considered one of several early major pieces of muckraking journalism, though Steffens later claimed that this work made him "the first muckraker."
Crime books that about the arts: It reports on the workings of corrupt political machines in several major U.S. cities, along with a few efforts to combat them.
The Blind Man of Seville: Crime books: '''''The Blind Man of Seville''''' is a 2003 crime novel and thriller by British writer Robert Wilson.
that about the arts: The investigation into the restaurateur's turbulent life sends Falcón trawling through his own past and the ferociously candid journals of his late father, a world-famous artist.
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues: an art-school student in Greenwich Village, answers an ad for a job as a painter's assistant at Number 12 Cobble Lane. The painter, Garson, evaluates and hires her; in her duties of cleaning paintbrushes and answering the door, she becomes involved in Garson's mysterious affairs, as well of those of his downstairs neighbors,