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The Art Fiasco

The Art Fiasco

Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith

Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne

Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime

Era(s): Golden Age 1920s

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It’s 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she’s inherited.

One of Aunt Dot’s guests is the world-renowned artist, Agnes Robson, who is staging an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery. Reluctantly, Poppy is roped in to help when the artist’s press liaison man falls ill.

She soon discovers that the local press has dug up some dirt on Agnes relating to the tragic death of a young art teacher in Ashington Colliery, twenty-seven years earlier. As she tries to suppress the story, Poppy begins to suspect that the teacher might have been murdered and that the killer may still be on the loose…

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Author: Tina Hartas

This is no. 5 in the Poppy Denby series and I came to this without having read the previous novels. It easily holds its own. Popping is up from London and staying with Aunt...

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