Patience Amherst is an ambitious young artist. When she gets the chance to travel to London, to study with the great portrait painter Sir Hilary Marlow, she seizes the opportunity. Yet, little does Patience realise that Sir Hilary is not merely interested in her talents, and there is a sinister plot afoot, one which will embroil her in the secrets of the Marlow family and which will, ultimately, end in murder. Can Patience manoeuvre through the dangerous situation in which she finds herself, fulfill her artistic ambitions, and reconcile with her childhood sweetheart, the aspiring barrister, Vernon Ramsey?
Alice and Claude Askew were the best-selling writing partnership behind many popular novels published during the Edwardian period. Their crime mystery classic A Daughter of Art was first serialised in newspapers in 1909. This edition represents the first time this work has been returned to print in over a century, making the inventive and original mystery writing of the Askews accessible to a modern audience.
