A review by smessmores
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh

4.0

I can now definitely see why Marsh has been compared to Christie so often. Their styles are quite similar, and Marsh is truly an excellent mystery writer! I really enjoyed reading this, and I can see I'm going to have to work hard to find the types of clues that give her murderers away. When the murderer was initially revealed I was disappointed, thinking it had come out of the blue, but when Alleyn did the denouement all the pieces were there - I just hadn't paid close enough attention. I do wish there had been a bit more bouncing around with suspects - there was SO much evidence about Garcia that I was expecting them to find him dead from pretty early on, but she didn't give me much evidence to try and divert the reader from him as suspect. Which I think is a loss on her part.