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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Add to the list of art-related myseries many of the Roderick Alleyn mysteries by Ngaio Marsh (late 20's to late 70's; some were dramatized on Mystery!). Alleyn, of the Scotland Yard murder squad, courts and eventually marries Agatha Troy, a painter (they meet when one of her models is murdered). Margery Allingham's Death of A Ghost (a Mr. Campion mystery) is another art-related mystery (forgery and murder). Elizabeth Daly's Henry Gammage mysteries (1930's through 1950's) have as their hero an expert in questioned documents. Many of the cases turn on forgery; one, the Book of the Lion, is about a forged Chaucer manuscript. A number of the Father Brown short stories (by G.K. Chesterton) feature painters or artists as characters; the stories themselves are very painterly, wonderful dawns and sunsets. And isn't the Trent of Trent's Last Case (E.K. Bentley) a painter? All of these are still in print, or were recently reissued. -- Ms. Elizabeth O'Keefe Director of Information Services The Pierpont Morgan Library 29 East 36th Street New York, NY 10016-3403 TEL: 212 685-0008 x366 FAX: 212 481-3484 NET: [log in to unmask]