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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
2) The heist
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.
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Series
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English
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"One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim...
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Series
Scott Finn thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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When members of Boston's underworld start turning up dead, attorney Scott Finn finds himself drawn into a deadly search for missing art.
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English
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Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan--an art historian by training--has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her--and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Lizzie Hawker recruits Arnold Clover to look into the disappearance of her mother, an Italian countess, and a priceless painting of Lucrezia Borgia. When a body is discovered in a crypt, secret clues to the portraits location are unearthed. The search for the lost Borgia quickly becomes a race through Venice, with potentially deadly consequences..."--Novelist Plus.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"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-fiance, 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...
11) Rival's break
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English
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"Emma Sharpe is recovering from a shattering loss while her husband, Colin Donovan, is deep into his latest undercover mission. So they're grateful to enjoy a peaceful autumn weekend together on the southern Maine coast to celebrate Colin's brother Andy's wedding. But the peace is short-lived when Kevin Donovan, a marine patrol officer, receives a call to check on suspected food poisoning at a party aboard a yacht. Colin decides to tag along. He is...
12) Losing ground
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Headcase
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Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Series
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English
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"Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won't be easy, especially...
17) Blaze away
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with--might be the greatest informant any police officer has ever dealt with--and although Jack ended this arrangement some time ago, Harpur still feels indebted to him. Lamb's posh manor house is stuffed with expensive paintings, ripe for the pinching...and...
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Series
Serena Jones mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A plucky FBI art crime agent forges her way through sketchy politics and a palette of lies to expose the ruthless mastermind behind the recent theft of a priceless work of art.
Author
Series
Serena Jones mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother asks her to look into a friend's forged Dali painting, Serena Jones finds herself enmeshed in a case involving a ring of art thieves with ties to corrupt cops and her grandfather's murder.
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood, 1934. Prohibition is finally over, but there is still plenty of crime for an ambitious young private eye to investigate. Though he has a slightly checkered past, Riley Fitzhugh is well connected in the film industry and is hired by a major producer whose lovely girlfriend has disappeared. He also is hired to recover a stolen Monet, a crime that results in two murders initially, with more to come."--provided by publisher.
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