The Art Thief

Author: Noah Charney

Title: The Art Thief

Binding: Audio CD

Release Date: 2007-09-18

Details: Product Description 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 Genevieve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's great treasure, "White-on-White" by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's newest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased for 6.3 million pounds. While three separate thefts are simultaneously investigated in three separate cities, the apparently unrelated crimes have more in common than anyone imagines. In each city, the authorities enlist the help of a renowned art investigator, police inspectors, and Scotland Yard. A trail of bizarre clues and intellectual puzzles reveals forgeries, over-paintings, thefts, and double-crosses leading ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy. Review "A sprawling tapestry of deceit, honor, love, and triumph...this book will entertain you from the first page to the last."-- "Seattle Post-Intelligencer""Charney crafts an intellectual masterpiece in this work that sweeps through three of the worlds most art-filled cities. This novel is a witty, fast-paced page-turner full of artistic symbolism and insider knowledge about legendary art thefts, forgeries, and secret engravings."-- "IndieBound""Debut author Noah Charney enjoys a unique vantage point from which to spin his tale of art-world intrigue...Charney is a real-life version of his novel's hero Gabriel Coffin...A mixture of inside information on the art market and lively art history (including four actual lectures, all of them brilliantly devised) brings the novel very close to nonfiction territory."-- "BookPage"Hilarious! Delicious! This deftly plotted mystery is filled with art and French food and delightful heroines and heroes...Simon Vance uses rich accents to create a believable Gallic atmosphere as he 'ooo-la-las!' his way through a series of gastronomic adventures, making listeners' mouths water at the same time that their sides ache with laughter.-- "AudioFile" About the Author Twenty-seven year-old American NOAH CHARNEY holds degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University, and he has created the academic field of the history of art theft. He is the founding director of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA), the first international think tank on art crime whose board of trustees includes the respective art squad heads of the FBI, Carabinieri, and Scotland Yard, as well as renowned museum, art world, and criminology specialists.

EAN: 9781433203718

Package Dimensions: Height: 6.68 Inches, Length: 6.42 Inches, Weight: 0.64 Pounds, Width: 1.18 Inches

Languages: en