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After the Exhibition: A classic British mystery set in the 1920s (A Jack Haldean Mystery)
After the Exhibition A classic British mystery set in the 1920s - A Jack Haldean Mystery Author:Dolores Gordon-Smith A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . — ?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 voic... more »e 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 . . .« less