abstract:Artists in Crime is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1938. The plot concerns the murder of an artists' model; Agatha Troy is introduced.
In the process, the committee destroyed the lives of over 300 motion picture and literary artists whose only crime was refusing to turn in their friends as communist sympathizers- whether they were sympathizers or not.