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Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 3
Language
English
Description
Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore a painting owned by a reclusive millionaire banker, art expert and sometime Israeli agent Gabriel Allon discovers his would-be employer murdered and finds himself back in the espionage game.
5) The detour
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched by the Third Reich to collect a classical Roman marble statue and relinquish it to Gestapo custody, Ernst Vogler discovers that his escorts are pursuing nefarious side agendas and leaving him to fend for himself.
Author
Series
Yashim Togalu mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski, in an unexpectedly dangerous case with ties to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
Author
Series
Tim Simpson mysteries volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
188 p.
Language
English
10) Pane of death
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
409 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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12) Cold hit
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
13) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 320 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intrepid Jane Lawless tackles a personally complicated case when her ex-husband returns to Minneapolis and wakes up next to the dead body of an art collector.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years after staging her kidnapping and death to run away with the heir to a renowned art collection, Karen finds her carefully constructed world falling apart when their daughter discovers the truth and brings about Karen's reunion with her sister.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an emerging artist's untimely death on the night of his first opening, gallery receptionist and aspiring artist Mia McMurray witnesses a fierce competition for possession of the late artist's most-coveted painting.
17) Murder in Clichy
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
284 p.
Language
English
Description
Spirited Aimée Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, René, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor--to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger's death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an unscrupulous art collector offers James Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living--and most reclusive--artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself, or will he push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff? Will his lover Berenice Hollis wish she'd high-tailed it back to...
19) The icon thief
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Blume, an ambitious young art buyer for a Manhattan hedge fund, is desperate to track down a priceless painting by Marcel Duchamp, the most influential artist of the twentieth century. The discovery of a woman's decapitated body thrusts criminal investigator Alan Powell into a search for the same painting, with its enigmatic image of a headless nude. And a Russian thief and assassin known as the Scythian must steal the painting to save his...
20) Artscape
Author
Series
Ike Schwartz mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
With an introduction by Frederick Ramsay. Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him. More than anything, he wanted to blot out the pain and anger that came when his wife of less than a month was gunned down in a CIA foul-up. So he buried himself as sheriff in rural Picketsville, Virginia, a community indistinguishable from any of the hundreds of small towns that hang like beads on Interstate 81 running...
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