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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Soho Constable, 2008
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A murder mystery featuring Lord Francis Powerscourt, England, 1899, and Titian has come to London. So have Giorgione, Bellini, Tintoretto and a galaxy of other great artists in a major exhibition of Venetian paintings. New World money and prices come to London too, as American millionaires bid for the Old Masters. Shortly after the exhibition opens, a leading art critic, Christopher Montague, is found garrotted in his study. Lord Francis Powerscourt, the discreet society investigator called upon to look into the case, soon discovers that before his death Montague has been working on a story that could have destroyed the exhibition and rocked the London art world to its foundations. According to Montague, most of the Venetian paintings were fakes and some of the alleged Old Masters were brilliant, and recent, forgeries. In pursuit of a master forger and a murderer, Powerscourt embarks on an odyssey through the treacherous world of art dealers and picture restorers.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00088453485
- Titel
- Death of an Old Master
- Autor
- David Dickinson
- Verlag
- Soho Constable
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Paperback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1569475482
- ISBN-13
- 9781569475485
- Serie
- Buch 3 von 14: Lord Francis Powerscourt Series
“Fine prose, high society and a complex plot recommend this series.”—Library Journal
Original or fake, masterpiece or forgery: misadventure or murder?
England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master” paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition opens, one of Britain's leading art experts, Christopher Montague, is found dead in his study. When Lord Francis Powerscourt is called in to investigate, he finds that every book, notepad, and scrap of paper has been removed from the scene of the crime. Montague had been working on something that would have rocked the art world. Did the article that claimed a number of the “Old Masters” had been painted recently by a single hand have anything to do with his death?
Powerscourt embarks on an odyssey through a treacherous world of art dealers and picture restorers in pursuit of a master forger. He travels to Sicily where the trail grows cold, but, after the thrills and dangers of that lawless island, it is in a remote corner of the English countryside where the truth is finally revealed.
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