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41) 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.
42) Last day
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister suffered through the kidnapping of their mother and the theft of a famous painting. Detective Conor Reid swore to protect them from then on. When the same family painting is stolen again and Beth is murdered, Beth's husband comes under suspicion and Reid vows to solve the crime.
Author
Series
Lost art mystery volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Art and Camille team up once again to solve a large museum theft, using one of the biggest heists in history to help them solve the case"--
44) 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.
45) Stone quarry
Author
Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.
Author
Series
File novels volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Kearny Associates, a San Francisco repo firm, is caught up in a strange case involving a dancing bear that picks pockets on the side and a millionaire recluse who stay in his fortress in the Big Sur wilderness.
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On vacation in Mexico, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah must once again rely on Eddie's talent for drawing and his photographic memory to uncover clues to catch a crook when Eddie's father is falsely accused of a crime"--
Author
Series
Roxy Abruzzo mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Roxy Abruzzo, the niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss, sabotages her efforts to run a legal architectural-salvage business when she steals a Greek statue, causing her to get caught up in the chaos surrounding the sordid murder of one of the city's billionaires.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate...
50) The chrysalis
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth century: The citys chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrates daughter, Amalia, an illicit love affair begins. Miereveld creates a captivating masterpiece, The Chrysalisa stunning portrait of the Virgin Mary, full of Catholic symbols, that outrages his Protestant patron and signals the death of his career....
Author
Series
Miss Mallard mystery volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Watch out, Miss Mallard! Miss Mallard is a famous detective who just happens to be a duck! Her latest case takes her to Venice on a wild gondola chase. A museum masterpiece is missing and all signs point to the famous artist El Ducko, who once saved Miss Mallard's life. Will Miss Mallard be able to save her friend? Or is he really the thief?"--Page 2 of cover.
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Elusive art thief Lars Heinrich returns to New York City looking to settle a score. Super sleuth seventh-grader Edmund Xavier Lonrrot will need not only his photographic mind and artistic talents, but any skill he possesses with cracking codes as a string of the city's historical monuments become potential clues in what could become one of the greatest heists in history"--
53) Havana black
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade is discovered washed up on a Havana beach. Head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a blunt knife. Forcade was once responsible for confiscating art works from the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution. Had he really returned from exile just to visit his ailing father? Lieutenant Mario Conde immerses himself in Cuba's dark history, expropriations of priceless paintings now vanished without...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While searching for her friends at the Dino Festival, Clementine Wim runs into two people carrying what she thinks is the Tiled Lunch Counter (a famous painting) away from the Capitol City Art Museum, but when she checks the painting is still hanging in place--and before she can track down the thieves, and prove that the painting now in the museum is a forgery, she has to convince her friends that she was not imagining things.
Author
Series
Art history mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Outdoor art is disappearing all over the neighbourhood! From elaborate Halloween decorations to the Stream of Dreams fish display across the fence at Stephen and Renée's school, it seems no art is safe. Renée's brother, Attila, has been cursing those model fish since he first had to make them as part of his community service. So everyone thinks Attila is behind it when they disappear. But, grumpy teen though he is, Attila can do no wrong in Renée's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
General Bottando can't believe his rotten luck. He has just been promoted--to a position that's heavy on bureaucratic duties-but disturbingly light on investigative responsibilities. As if that wasn't annoying enough, he's received a tip about a planned raid at a nearby monastery. He's relying on his colleague Flavia di Stefano and her art-expert fiance, Jonathan Argyll, to thwart the plot-but both are beyond baffled. The only valuable item in the...
58) A bid for love
Author
Publisher
Spring Creek
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Cassi is the head buyer for a prestigious art gallery in California. Jared is a buyer for an exclusive New York gallery. Sparks fly as the two come head to head in a bidding war for a hideous but very expensive Indian Buddha. Cassi and Jared are both determined to win the statue, but others also want the Buddhaat any cost. Thugs, art forgers, the FBI, or Jareds beautiful and alluring boss . . . who will end up with the statue? During...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she's an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives for an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great Nestor Pinedo, Johanna wants to throw it in the trash where it belongs. But with some styling help from her daughter, she makes an appearance and comes face-to-face with the woman she was before the powerful and jealous Nestor ruined her. La Rosa Blanca is a portrait...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A museum director walks into work one morning to discover that the entire collection of porcelain, old documents, and paintings is gone. He calls the local police, and examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to learn the thief's identity. Verlaque wonders if this could have something to do with the recent robbery of Madame de Montbarbon's apartment. He is distracted by the impending of birth of his first child with his wife, Marine Bonnet....
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