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I was Vermeer
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Frank Wynne |
Presents the true story of Han van Meegeren, one of the world's greatest art forgers, who was charged with treason for selling a forged "Vermeer" painting to Nazi Commander Hermann Goring in 1945. |
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Comic Con Artist
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Franklin W. Dixon |
ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY
MISSION:
To discover the criminal responsible for forging versions of valuable original comic-book art.
LOCATION:
A huge comics convention in San Fr… |
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Lost Mona Lisa
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R. A. Scotti |
Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20th 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. 16 hours later the most famous painting in th… |
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The Da Vinci deception
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Thomas Swan |
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 off… |
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The forgery of Venus
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Gruber, Michael,Michael Gruber |
Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough—artists whose works sell for mill… |
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Ripley Under Water (Ripley #5)
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Patricia Highsmith |
Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on t… |
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Provenance
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Laney Salisbury |
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayPr… |
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Feint of Art:
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Hailey Lind |
The first in a new mystery series starring art-forger-Gone-good Annie KincaidAnnie breaks the news to her curator ex-boyfriend Ernst: his museum's new $15 million Caravaggio is a fake. Then the janit… |
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What's bred in the bone
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Robertson Davies |
Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian cou… |
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