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Allmen novels volume 1
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"A thrilling art heist escapade infused with European high culture and luxury that doesn't shy away from the darker side of human nature. Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted his family fortune by living in Old World grandeur despite present-day financial constraints. Forced to downscale, Allmen inhabits the garden house of his former Zurich estate, attended by his Guatemalan butler, Carlos. When not reading...
22) Once a thief
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Thief series volume 1
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With a priceless collection at stake...Is everything for the taking?
It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother—a world-class security expert—and his smart and savvy exhibit...
It had taken centuries for Max Bannister’s family to acquire their treasures, and now he’s been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal. For his own reasons, Max allows a public exhibition, and to protect the family fortune he must rely on the skills of his half brother—a world-class security expert—and his smart and savvy exhibit...
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Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdulmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece-a portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror-may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly sent to investigate, but-aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting-decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in...
24) Masterclass
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An art historian's devious plans regarding secretly stored artwork become derailed when his new girlfriend opens a new gallery and he ponders the mystery surrounding the year-old murder of an artist.
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 7
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While Betta has official business in Urbino -- namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector-- she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind. When the Spaniard is found murdered and the drawing stolen, Betta must shift back into art cop mode, and Rick's official services are required after all. Will this lovers' getaway literally be to die for?
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"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
27) Cold hit
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A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
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Library of America volume 215
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"This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners.
"The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean Howells, who told of having given advice to a friend...
29) The hypnotist
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Reincarnationist volume 3
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"An FBI agent, tormented by a death he wasn't able to prevent, a crime he's never been able to solve and a love he's never forgotten, discovers that his true conflict resides not in his past, but in a ... past life.--Flyleaf.
30) Faking it
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"Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery--and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch, who likes to escape reality; Eve, the oldest daughter, who has a slight identity problem (she has two); Nadine, the granddaughter, who's ready to follow in the family footsteps as soon as she can find a set that isn't leading off a cliff. And last, Matilda, the youngest daughter, who has inherited the secret locked down...
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Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 3
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In 1878 Paris, Police Commissioner "Papa" Gauche must solve a brutal murder. Lord Littleby has been found at home with his head bashed in, surrounded by the bodies of seven servants and two children who all seem to have died from morphine poisoning. The only clue Gauche has to go on is a gold key in the shape of a whale. This key gains entrance to a luxury liner, the Leviathan, whose maiden voyage is to India. Gauche embarks, and finds among the passengers--all...
33) Finally you
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No competition: Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why...even though he knows she returns his feelings.
All things considered: Single mom Lanni Matthiessen has worked hard to make a nice life for her daughter. She...
36) Too damn rich
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A novel of sexual frenzy and criminal intrigue in the art world. The protagonists are three women involved in an art auction in New York. One is an art expert, the second is a German countess, the third a three-time widow after a U.S. president. By the author of Sins.
37) Zatoka Cykuty
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Polish
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FBI agents Dillon and Lacey (Sherlock) Savich rescue two boys kidnapped from Maryland and then rush off to California to save Dillon's sister from a greedy art collector.
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