The Da Vinci deception

By Thomas Swan

Subjects: Jack Oxby (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Forgeries, Painting, Art forgers, Art dealers, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Oxby, jack (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, crime

Description: A group of Anglo-American forgers produce a sketch of the Mona Lisa, supposedly by Leonardo da Vinci and nearly get away with selling it. The man who busts the plot is John Osby, a British police officer on the art and antiquities squad.