Coverart for item
The Resource The art thief : a novel, Noah Charney

The art thief : a novel, Noah Charney

Label
The art thief : a novel
Title
The art thief
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Noah Charney
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Geneviéve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's greatest treasure, White-on-White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's latest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased for more than six million pounds. In The Art Thief, three thefts are simultaneously investigated in three cities, but these apparently isolated crimes have much more in common than anyone imagines. In Rome, the police enlist the help of renowned art investigator Gabriel Coffin when tracking down the stolen masterpiece. In Paris, Geneviéve Delacloche is aided by Police Inspector Jean-Jacques Bizot, who finds a trail of bizarre clues and puzzles that leads him ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy. In London, Inspector Harry Wickenden of Scotland Yard oversees the museum's attempts to ransom back its stolen painting, only to have the masterpiece's recovery deepen the mystery even further. A dizzying array of forgeries, overpaintings, and double-crosses unfolds as the story races through auction houses, museums, and private galleries -- and the secret places where priceless works of art are made available to collectors who will stop at nothing to satisfy their hearts' desires
Storyline
Pace
Tone
Writing style
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
258390
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Charney, Noah
Dewey number
813/.6
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3603.H3768
LC item number
A88 2007
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
Art thefts
Target audience
adult
Label
The art thief : a novel, Noah Charney
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Ill. on lining papers
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
290 pages
Isbn
9781416550303
Lccn
2007010309
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
color illustrations
System control number
  • 2007010309
  • (OCoLC)85862500
Label
The art thief : a novel, Noah Charney
Publication
Note
Ill. on lining papers
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Extent
290 pages
Isbn
9781416550303
Lccn
2007010309
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
color illustrations
System control number
  • 2007010309
  • (OCoLC)85862500

Library Locations

    • Williamsburg LibraryBorrow it
      515 Scotland Street, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, US
      37.377573 -76.770995