After the Exhibition

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A church art exhibition turns deadly . . .

”Art, my dear boy,” said Mr Askern, ”especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .”

He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. ”Art,” she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. ”Art! Oh my God, art!”

She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell.

Jack Haldean expected Lythewell and Askerns” exhibition of church art in Lyon House, London, to be a sedate affair. After all, Lythewell and Askern, Church Artists, were a respectable, old-fashioned firm, the last people to be associated with mystery, violence and sudden death. Or so it seemed – until after the exhibition . . .