What: Golden Age mystery novel, Margery Allingham sans Campion, art gallery, an unpleasant pipsqueak of a man, respected family firm, slashed painting, detective in supporting role, scandal, "aged and indomitable" head of the family, fake engagement, man back from the dead, body stuffed in a cupboard.
Representative quote: "The funeral itself was one of those unbelievable pieces of picturesque nightmare which sometimes slip into real life to remind one that there is nothing so painfully absurd that it cannot happen."
Also: Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (Rec. #133).
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