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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cat in a quicksilver caper	Carole Nelson Douglas	Midnight Louie, alley-cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas's hairiest, hard-boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City's swankiest casinos is…	OL103213W
Homeport	Nora Roberts	Kurzbeschreibung Das Haus der Donna (Homeport) - Nora Roberts Das Geheimnis der Dunklen Lady. Die amerikanische Kunstexpertin Dr. Miranda Jones reist nach Florenz, um eine kürzlich gefundene B…	OL111499W
Zwischen Staat und Wirtschaft	Stefan Lütgenau	"Die Studie ist eine Geschichte des Versatz-, Verwahrungs- und Versteigerungsamtes Dorotheum während des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich 1938-1945. Das 1707 gegründete Wiener Pfand- und Auktionshau…	OL12672676W
The Gardner Heist	Ulrich Boser	One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld — the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get them back Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, t…	OL13609165W
Loose and easy	Tara Janzen	He's the bad boy she always wanted.She's the good girl that got away.He'd know her anywhere. Johnny Ramos had just come off a tour of duty in Afghanistan to find Esmee Alden trolling the mean streets…	OL15111803W
Chasing Vermeer	Blue Balliett	When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.	OL15135714W
Buy back	Brian M. Wiprud	Tom Davin's business is a bit unusual--he finds stolen art and sells it back to its owners for a good penny--until he uncovers a devious plot and finds himself on the run from a vicious Russian assas…	OL15409238W
The chrysalis	Heather Terrell	Hard-driving Manhattan attorney Mara Coyne is confronted by the case of her career when she is asked to defend a prestigious auction house against claims that a mysterious Dutch masterpiece about to …	OL15825659W
The music lesson	Katharine Weber	The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "…	OL15838553W
Heart of Steel (Iron Seas # 2)	Meljean Brook	"Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke. Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airsh…	OL16126438W
Hot art	Joshua Knelman	"Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman's five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, which takes him from Egypt to Los Angeles, New York to London, and back again, through a web of deceit, violenc…	OL16361775W
Take My Breath Away...	Cara Summers	Why are the bad ones always so very, very good? FBI special agent Nicola Guthrie is on her first field assignment. Her job? To find security expert turned art thief Gabe Wilder. She knows this is …	OL16566031W
Heart of steel	Meljean Brook	Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is …	OL17795916W
Cry in the night	Carolyn G. Hart	"Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. An…	OL17906721W
False Impression	Jeffrey Archer	It's September 10, 2001, and Lady Victoria Wentworth is sitting in spacious Wentworth Hall considering the sad state of family fortunes when a female intruder slips in, slashes her throat and cuts of…	OL1807045W
Maureen the detective	Veda Boyd Jones	When her parents died, young Maureen O'Callaghan was sent from Ireland to the United States to begin a new life in the Stevenson family. At age eleven, she's ready to become a U.S. citizen-just as so…	OL18764437W
The Modigliani Scandal	Ken Follett	Todas las intrigas y corrupciones del mundo del arte, con sus notables implicaciones económicas, desfilan por estas páginas escritas con la habitual maestría de Ken Follett.	OL1914081W
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis	David E. Fishman	xv, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm	OL19332996W
Midnight in the piazza	Tiffany Parks	After moving to Rome with her father, thirteen-year-old Beatrice witnesses a shadowy figure steal the turtle sculptures from a fountain located outside her window and is determined to solve the crime…	OL19733072W
The monuments men	Robert M. Edsel	"In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destructio…	OL19971954W