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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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...
11) The music lesson
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
13) Chasing Cezanne
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Paris, New York photographer Andre Kelly puts aside photography to destroy a black market in paintings. The villain is using photo shoots of art works as an occasion to substitute forgeries for the real thing, then selling the originals to Japanese and Arab collectors. By the author of Anything Considered.
15) Heist society
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie finds herself tested as a parent, philosopher, sleuth, and friend in the ninth book of her mystery series. When a wealthy art collector seeks her help when a valuable painting is stolen from him, she discovers that the thieves are closer to the owner than he would have expected. At the same time, Isabel must decide what to do with her son when she discovers he's a budding mathematical genius....
17) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon.
20) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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