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English
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"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
Author
Series
Needlecraft mystery volume 12
Language
English
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Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, must put her sleuthing talents to work when one of her regular customers unwittingly becomes embroiled in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities.
24) Among thieves
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Scott Finn is drawn into the deadly search for missing art.
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Language
English
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"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
27) Three fates
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English
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"When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief. But the man still kept the small silver statue he lifted, saving it as a reminder of his past and a family heirloom for future generations. A century later, that priceless heirloom--one of a long-separated set of three--has been stolen again. Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure,...
28) Giotto's hand
Author
Series
Art history mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll.
29) Tokyo heist
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 17
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
31) Nothing ventured
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Series
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English
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"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
Art history mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Sent to Venice to help solve a murder, Flavia di Stefano of the Rome Art Theft Squad teams up with the local carabinieri to catch the killer--Publisher.
33) The Bernini bust
Author
Series
Art history mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When the billionaire owner of a California art museum is murdered, an art dealer disappears, and a Bernini bust is smuggled out of Italy, British art historian Jonathan Argyll investigates.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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.
35) The frame-up
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Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old artist Sargent Singer must team up with some very unusual partners to thwart a theft of the masterpieces in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery"--
Author
Series
Art history mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When a tacky painting in his possession is linked to a series of murders, art dealer Jonathan Argyll must investigate the dark secrets in the painting's past -- before someone with truly horrible taste decides to put him out of the picture for good.
37) False impression
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Language
English
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It's September 10, 2001, and Lady Victoria Wentworth is sitting in spacious Wentworth Hall considering the sad state of family fortunes when a female intruder slips in, slashes her throat and cuts off her ear. The next day in New York, art expert Anna Petrescu heads to her job as art wrangler for wealthy magnate Bryce Fenston of Fenston Finance. The pair's offices are in the Twin towers, and when disaster strikes, each sees the tragedy as an opportunity...
38) Framed in France
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 11
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Lambchop is whisked away to Paris, where he must help catch a mastermind art thief at the historical Louvre museum by posing a painting"--
39) Buy back
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Having orchestrated an art theft to cover a debt only to have the paintings stolen, a Brooklyn insurance investigator is directed to look into his own crime, a situation that is complicated by bookie pressures, his ex-girlfriend's four cats, and accusations that he is responsible for sniper attacks.
40) Killer's art
Author
Publisher
Stockholm Text
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin's battered and naked body is found suspended feet from the ground, hanging from the 'gate of love' in the town's old city walls.
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