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The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.
Rising...
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.
Rising...
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Riley Wolfe novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
In St. Petersburg, Riley steals a Fabergé egg, but is betrayed by the pilot he hired to help him get away. Now he's chained to a rock wall on a remote island-- the prisoner of an international arms dealer who wants Rile to steal an artwork. Problem: It's a fresco, The Liberation of St. Peter. It's in the Vatican. And it's a literal wall. -- adapted from jacket
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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English
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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Detective Luc Moncrief volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief...
6) Doors open
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction-and a...
7) Headhunters
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
8) Confidence
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. One day after Lisa vanishes that casket gets...
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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...
10) The art stealers
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
11) Art of the heist
Publisher
Athena ; Distributed exclusively by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015, 2006.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 DVD (approximately 13 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages ; 15 cm)
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English
Description
Investigates the high-profile thefts of some of the world's greatest pieces of art. From Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer to Edvard Munch's The Scream and even the Mona Lisa, these and other iconic masterpieces have been coveted by the criminal world. The fourteen-part series delves into the background behind the audacious burglaries and the authorities' efforts to apprehend the crooks and restore the masterpieces to public viewing.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as "Sir John Smythe."...
13) The omega factor
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
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English
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
15) Painted ladies
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Series
Language
English
Description
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.
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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...
17) 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
Publisher
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.
20) Declan's Cross
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Series
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English
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Marine biologist Julianne Maroney comes to tiny Declan's Cross on the south Irish coast to heal her broken heart. Colin, who broke her heart, and his partner Emma are also in Declan's Cross to investigate an art theft that happened years before.
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