trying to find an detective book his wife was an artist and her name was troy?

Question

the last book I read he was and superetendant

Answer 1

ngaio marsh

Marsh's best-known character is Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The name was created as a compliment to her father who had attended a public school founded by the Elizabethan tragedian Edward Alleyn. Roderick Alleyn is assisted by Inspector Fox who can quote Shakespeare. Later Alleyn marries Agatha Troy, an absent-minded, thin, shy and funny painter, whose character was not far from Marsh's own in the 1930s. Another figure from the first books is the journalist Nigel Bathgate, whom Alleyn could not tolerate. Marsh later dropped him from the stories. Like Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, Alleyn has a noble background, but instead of becoming a diplomat he joined the police force after returning from World War 1

Answer 2

You're trying to find a series of excellent mysteries by author Ngaio Marsh, featuring her detective Roderick Alleyn. There's a lot of them, and they do proceed in some kind of sequential order.
Check for Ms Marsh's name in the Yahoo search engine and you can likely find a chronological list.!
Good hunting!