Murder in Eden is a 1961 British mystery film directed by Max Varnel and starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham. The screenplay involves the murder of an art critic and the subsequent hunt for the killer.
Plot
The Woolf Art Gallery is promoting an exhibition of paintings under the title "The Garden of Eden". A man peers strongly at a picture of Eve forming one of a pair representing Adam and Eve by a Dutch artist Van Meerwick.
After he discovers a famous painting is fake, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Inspector Peter Sharkey of Scotland Yard joins forces with French magazine reporter Geneviève Beaujean to investigate.
Geneviève spends a lot of time at the gallery. It is revealed she is not a real reporter. The police find a portfolio belonging to the dead man. It states the best forger is Michael Lucas but his work is revealed by the use of zinc white.
Michael Lucas has the real Eve hidden in a secret room in his seaside villa... he has promised to sell it to Bill Robson and shows him the secret room. Geneviève listens to them chat from the secret room. She has a gun. The police arrive and hear her crying in the secret room.