Death of a Ghost

An artist''s legacy lives on—through murder—in this Albert Campion mystery masterpiece. "Honestly, you can''t go wrong with Death of a Ghost" (Boston Evening Transcript).One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction''s Four Queens of Crime"The best of mystery writers."—The New YorkerTo vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London''s art season. But this release party—bringing family, friends, critics, and collectors together—devolves into scandal. A power outage leaves everyone in the dark, and when the lights come back on, a man lies dead—stabbed through the heart with bejeweled scissors. Family friend Albert Campion is present during the deadly crime. The too obvious suspect is the artist''s granddaughter, Linda Lafcadio, who was engaged to the victim until he brought back a model from Italy and married her. Linda didn''t take his suggestion of a ménage à trois well, to say the