Margery Allingham 
Death of a Ghost [EPUB ebook] 

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYJohn Lafcadio s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience. Albert Campion is among the cast of gadabouts, muses and socialites gathered for the latest ceremony but art is the last thing on the sleuth s mind when a brutal stabbing occurs .