Murder in Eden (film)

Murder in Eden is a 1961 British mystery film directed by Max Varnel and starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham.

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.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "What with unapt dialogue, tangled construction, melodramatic playing and unconvincing art work, direction as clumsy as is Max Varnel's here could scarcely make matters worse.

The thinly disguised Irish accents of many of the cast and the wholesale use of Georgian Dublin exteriors for a thriller ostensibly set in London add an extra layer of unreality to the bogus art world portrayed.