Title: After the exhibition
Description: 'Art, my dear boy, ' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .' He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. 'Art, ' she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. 'Art! Oh my God, art!' She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell. Jack Haldean expected Lythewell and Askerns' exhibition of church art in Lyon House, London, to be a sedate affair. After all, Lythewell and Askern, Church Artists, were a respectable, old-fashioned firm, the last people to be associated with mystery, violence and sudden death. Or so it seemed--until after the exhibition.
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, World War, 1914-1918, Murder, English Novelists, Exhibitions, Christian art and symbolism, Jack Haldean (Fictitious character), Fiction, Investigation, Veterans, Detective and mystery stories, Crime, fiction, Authors, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical