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"After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply...
102) Cons, scams & grifts
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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.
103) Loot
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2023.
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English
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Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
105) The Titian committee
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Art history mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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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.
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[Art history mysteries] volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2000].
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English
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A stolen masterpiece with arcane allegorical significance; a decades-old political kidnapping and murder; and, of course, a tantalizing artwork of unknown provenance -- in his seventh Jonathan Argyll art mystery, The Immaculate Deception, English art historian Iain Pears returns with a virtuosic display of ingenious plotting and literary trompe l'oeil. Pears's clever and effortlessly erudite art mysteries have found a select readership on both sides...
107) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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The man in a white smock--sweaty, sleepless, triumphant--walked out of the Louvre and into Paris. Then he disappeared. He'd stolen two things from the Louvre. The first was a doorknob. No one would care about the doorknob. The second was the Mona Lisa. A lot of people would care about the Mona Lisa.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"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....
109) The rape of Europa
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Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
110) The vanishing man
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2019
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English
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London, 1853. Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset, one of England's most revered noblemen, for help. A painting of the Duke's great-grandfather has been stolen from his private study. But the Duke's concern is not for his ancestor's portrait; hiding in plain sight nearby is another painting of infinitely more value, one that holds the key to one of the country's...
111) The last judgement
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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.
112) Stone quarry
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Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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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.
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English
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Thrill-seeking billionaire Thomas Crown pulls off the ultimate heist when he steals a priceless painting from a Manhattan museum - stealing it in broad daylight. But when he finds himself up against the beautiful insurance investigator hired to retrieve the masterpiece, the two engage in the most dangerous and intoxicating game of cat-and-mouse either has ever experienced.
114) The chrysalis
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Thorndike
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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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....
115) Herejes
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Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana while waiting for the Cuban authorities to allow 900 Jewish refugees from Germany into their country. Confident that a painting by Rembrandt that had belonged to their family since the 17th century--and which they had smuggled on board the ship--would convince the Cubans to let them in, little Daniel Kaminsky and his uncle waited at the dock for their relatives to disembark. But the...
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Center Street
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English
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.
The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians,...
The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians,...
117) The Duke
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2013.
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English
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Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
119) The duke heist
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Wild Wynchesters novel volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When the only father Chloe Wynchester has ever known makes a dying wish for his adopted family of orphans to recover a missing painting, she's the first one her siblings turn to for stealing it back. Lawrence Gosling, the Duke of Faircliffe, is tortured by his father's mistakes. To repair his estate's ruined reputation, he must wed a highborn heiress, but he may have to sacrifice his family's legacy to follow true love."--Publisher
120) The monuments men
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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