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43) False picture
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A widowed amateur sleuth shadows an international art thief from London to Bruges in this "sprightly second cozy" by the author of False Charity (Publishers Weekly).
Bea Abbot doesn't do murder. The modest agency she runs from her Victorian home in Kensington is better at finding good domestic help and the best caterers. Yet how can she turn away her oldest friend? Velma's prodigal stepson Philip has vanished....
Bea Abbot doesn't do murder. The modest agency she runs from her Victorian home in Kensington is better at finding good domestic help and the best caterers. Yet how can she turn away her oldest friend? Velma's prodigal stepson Philip has vanished....
44) Driving the deep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"As a professional finder, Fergus Ferguson is hired to locate missing objects and steal them back. But it is rarely so simple, especially after his latest job in Cernee. He's been recovering from that experience in the company of friends, the Shipmakers of Pluto, experts at crafting top-of-the-line AI spaceships. The Shipmakers have convinced Fergus to finally deal with unfinished business he's been avoiding for half his life: Earth. Fergus hasn't...
45) Gambit
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Hong Kong, a dapper English cat burglar enlists the aid of a Eurasian dancer to help him in an elaborate scheme to grab an age-old artifact from the heavily secured palace of a powerful Middle Eastern tycoon. Unfortunately, the foolproof scheme begins to backfire shortly after it starts and the duo must pull out all the stops if they hope to come out on top.
46) Chasing Cézanne
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
With just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, Elle Stowell can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. She's a burglar, she's good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the home of a wealthy art dealer, Elle discovers that she is no longer the only one sneaking around-- somebody is searching...
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Language
English
Description
An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
50) Heart of steel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke. Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything ... Treasurehunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just...
Author
Series
Secrets from grandma's attic volume 2
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a St. Louis flea market, sisters Amy Allen and Tracy Doyle and their cousin Robin Davisson discover an unexpected treasure at one of the booths: a rolled-up oil painting from the 1930s that once hung over Grandma Pearl's fireplace. They have not seen the marvelous portrait of the young woman in a green velvet dress for years and wonder how it ended up there, minus its frame. Delighted by their find, they buy the portrait and take it home to see...
54) Always a thief
Author
Series
Thief series volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card…
The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited—and the show’s director, Morgan West, can’t ignore her growing uneasiness. She’s certain she hasn’t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her...
The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited—and the show’s director, Morgan West, can’t ignore her growing uneasiness. She’s certain she hasn’t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn. But she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her...
55) Hudson Hawk
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eddie 'the Hawk' Hawkins, the world's most famous cat burglar, who, after ten years in prison, is ready to go straight. But it's not going to be easy for the Hawk. The mob and the CIA have conspired to blackmail Eddie and his partner into stealing three da Vinci masterpieces from the most heavily-guarded museums in the world. Sounds simple, right? WRONG! While trying to steal the goods, Hawk falls in love with a beautiful but schizophrenic nun and...
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
Author
Language
English
Description
A lady should never be obliged to think of matters financial! But when Lady Wilhelmina Bascombe's carefree, extravagant lifestyle vanishes with the demise of her husband, her only hope lies in retrieving a family treasure--a Renaissance masterpiece currently in the hands of a cunning art collector in Venice. Thankfully, the Lady Travelers Society has orchestrated a clever plan to get Willie to Europe, leading a tour of mothers and daughters and one...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime herself when no one believes her story.
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