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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 43
Language
English
Description
"When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career--and a collection--and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray provides a broad treatment that delves into historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases"--
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece, attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions. He is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist couldstill be alive.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emma Caan specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. Her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. When oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky unexpectedly appears with an invitation, Emma sees a way out: a new job, a new path for herself, and access to the kind of money she needs to support her unstable and recently widowed mother. But every invitation incurs an obligation. As Emma is pulled...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions of famous artworks for a popular online retailer, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal, her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, she says yes. When the long-missing Degas painting is delivered to her studio, she begins to suspect that the stolen masterpiece,...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000 - a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill - into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn's priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he'll need to negotiate...
12) Meow or never
Author
Series
Snazzy cat capers volume 3
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia and her inventor sidekick Oscar F. Gold are deep in preparations for the biggest challenge the FFBI (Furry Feline Burglary Institute) has to offer: The M.E.O.W. competition! The fur-and-fin duo show up with the most valuable treasure they can find--and Ophelia's cousin Pierre von Rascal beats them to the punch with a priceless painting that puts their loot to shame. But Ophelia is certain the expensive artwork is an elaborate fake! Ophelia...
Author
Series
Commissario Alec Blume novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Névraumont to create this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece;...
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After years of struggling to write after the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. When she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, she threatens to expose him. And the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. Soon Connor discovers...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lauryssens, once an art dealer, specialized in works by the eccentric, ingenious Salvador Dali. He made millions selling the painter's work to investors and businessmen wanting to launder their black market money. Although the art he sold came from some very shady sources, he would soon discover that the shadiest source of all was Dali himself. It's a behind-the-scenes look of the commerce and conspiracy that go hand-in- hand in the art world. (Soon...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
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