‎Guerre 39/45‎

‎Pears, Iain‎

‎THE BERNINI BUST‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Harcourt 1994. 1st. US edition so stated with complete letter line ABCDE. Fine in dust jacket. "Art dealer Jonathan Argyll has delivered an overpriced Titian The Titian Committee LJ 9/1/93 to the Moresby Museum in Santa Monica expecting to receive a check momentarily. During a museum party to announce the acquisition of a Bernini statue however someone murders the museum's opinionated billionaire owner. When Argyll's acquaintance a shady Spanish art dealer who may have smuggled the Bernini statue out of Italy becomes the prime suspect Argyll calls upon Italian art squad investigator Flavia di Stefano for assistance. Art history literary language and wry humor realize another auspicious combination." -- Library Journal. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harcourt Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015082 ISBN : 0151118302 9780151118304

‎Bradberry, James‎

‎EAKINS' MISTRESS SIGNED COPY‎

‎N.Y.: St. Martin's 1997. !ST ED. with complete number line beginning with 1. fine in dj rubbed along edges SIGNED by the author at title page. Jamie Ramsgill has returned to Philadelphia to take a job with his friend internationally acclaimed architect David Laycutt. Only David is missing along with a substantial portion of his firm's assests. At the same time he is helping his brother's wife who is the curator of a museum who is trying to authenticate a recently discovered Thomas Eakins painting. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006315 ISBN : 0312155182 9780312155186

‎Levine, Paul‎

‎FALSE DAWN‎

‎N.Y.: Bantam 1993. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. the 3rd Jake Lassiter title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Bantam Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018484 ISBN : 0553089951 9780553089950

‎Skeggs, Douglas‎

‎THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS‎

‎N.Y.: St Martins Press 1993. 1st edition September 1993 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The author's third mystery set in the world of art. "The third art theft caper from Skeggs The Estuary Pilgrim ; The Talinin Madonna features a roller-coaster plot a wealth of painting lore and an especially lovable rogue. A Titian masterpiece loaned to London's Royal Academy is stolen and a ransom of 5 million demanded of its insurers. The theft draws together two strangers: Tom Shaugnessy a master forger is offered 1 million to duplicate the painting; TV journalist Patricia Drew hopes to build a career-saving program from it. Tom's preparation work brings him into contact with Patricia as she researches the painting's history and the two develop a wary relationship in which each remains uncertain of the other's intentions and morality. Readers likewise are kept guessing about the forgery's purpose. Patricia is beautiful and plucky while rough-hewn Tom is a charmer with the wiles of a fox a gentle heart and a hidden agenda motivating nearly every action. A rapidly unfolding plot twists through exotic locales and ends with guns blazing." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 017897 ISBN : 0312099274 9780312099275

‎Innes, Michael‎

‎The Mysterious Commission‎

‎N.Y.: Dodd Mead 1975. 1st US ed. Very light wear at edges else near fine in price clipped dust jacket moderately rubbed. A Honeybath title set in the art world. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Dodd, Mead Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 017594 ISBN : 0396071341 9780396071341

‎Cook, Thomas H.‎

‎INSTRUMENTS OF NIGHT‎

‎NY: Bantam 1998. 1st edition November 1998 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A starred review for this book from Publisher's Weekly. Paul Graves knows evil to the bone. He confronted it first as a boy when he survived the torture-murder of his sister. As a man he has made its exploration his life's work tirelessly writing mysteries set in gaslight New York a world of mists and shadows of voices pleading in the fog footsteps racing over rain-swept cobblestones. a world colored by the ache of Graves's own past its still-remembered screams. It is a far cry from Riverwood the artists' community in upstate New York where Graves is invited to spend the summer. And yet for all its splendor and grand isolation Riverwood was once touched by crime-the murder of Faye Harrison a teenage girl who'd lived on the estate fifty years before. Faye's mother is now dying but uneasily still tormented by the unanswered questions about her daughter's death. Graves has been summoned byMlison Davies Faye's girlhood friend and now Riverwood's owner and asked to explore this long-past crime apply the art of mystery fiction to a murder that was real then write a story that will answer those very questions that keep Faye's mother from a peaceful death. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 017462 ISBN : 055310554X 9780553105544

‎Williams, David‎

‎TREASURE BY POST‎

‎Gordonsville Virginia U.S.A.: St Martins Press 1992. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. Mark Treasure a merchant banker in London England is featured in the fifteenth book in the series. "This time out merchant banker Mark Treasure Prescription for Murder p. 218 etc. and his lively actress wife Molly are visiting Chiversley where she is appearing in a film and where he has been asked by a bishop friend to become one of the three ``Convent beneficiaries'' of the Society of Blessed Mary Magdalene at Saint Timothy's Church to find a replacement for the murdered church organist. Should he vote to close the convent which is down to its last three exceedingly geriatric nuns Another convent beneficiary is murdered; arson claims the life of a nun who unknowingly was creating stamp forgeries in the convent print shop; and the Utteridge Brewery fortune which funds the convent has several disagreeing claimants each with plans of their own for spending the money some noble some in pursuit of the canon's man- trap niece Christine a former model now scarred from a car mishap. With a painstaking look around Treasure vanquishes an ironclad alibi and ties the forgeries to the murders and to the fate of the convent. " -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016736 ISBN : 0312071019 9780312071011

‎Browne, Gerald A.‎

‎Hot Siberian‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Arbor House Pub Co 1989. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. A Russian mystery set amongst the backdrop of the international Art World. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Arbor House Pub Co Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016768 ISBN : 087795965X 9780877959656

‎Pears, Iain‎

‎The Portrait‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Riverhead Books 2005. 1ST. ED. AS NEW/AS NEW . Set in 1900's England a painter receives a comission to do the portrait of a famous critic who is his nemisis. Written in a monologe style the suspense builds as both characters are reveled. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Riverhead Books Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016497 ISBN : 1573222984 9781573222983

‎Bevill, C. L.‎

‎Bayou Moon‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Minotaur 2002. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Mignon Thibeaux a sucessful New York City artist returns to a small town in Louisiana to investigate what everyone says is a haunted house. A DEBUT NOVEL. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016675 ISBN : 0312282079 9780312282073

‎Shaw, Patricia‎

‎NEVER PAINT A STRANGER‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Tor Books 1989. First edition May 1989 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Author's first novel - introduces 6 ft red-haired artist Hanna Andrews. "A fabulous long-lost triptych made for the last tsar of Russia by the great jeweler Faberge a wealthy and unscrupulous collector with violent henchmen and a young American artist come together in Basel with predictable results in this mystery/thriller. Successful young painter Hanna Anders arrives in the Swiss city searching for her heritage hinted at by her dead grandfather a Russian refugee from the 1917 Revolution. With no real knowledge of what she is seeking Hanna tries to follow clues about her family's past then runs afoul of collector Octavian Demopolis who knows about her connection to the triptych which he wants to add to his secret collection. Hanna is rescued from Octavian's kidnap attempt by Clete Cross ostensibly an American banker in Switzerland on business who is suspiciously interested in her past and present circumstances. While trying to escape both parties Hanna moves to the house of a family friend who takes her up into the mountains where the heirloom triptych may be hidden." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Tor Books Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015836 ISBN : 0312931824 9780312931827

‎Dunham, Mikel‎

‎Stilled Life‎

‎NY NY: St. Martin's Press 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Press Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015826 ISBN : 0312026455 9780312026455

‎Gash, Jonathan‎

‎The Lies of Fair Ladies‎

‎N.Y.: St Martins Press 1992. 1st edition August 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. " In his 15th Lovejoy mystery Gash again conveys "the bliss that is antiques" as his antiques dealer/sleuth returns to the deceptively idyllic English countryside of East Anglia. Here as Lovejoy's fans well know the picture-book scenery is the backdrop for antiques scams--this time on an uprecedentedly large scale that when combined with a desire for revenge nurtured for centuries provide multiple motives for murder. Accompanied--and bedded--by a bevy of fair ladies whose husbands he deftly outmaneuvers Lovejoy investigates brutal murder and discovers an operation in which large caches of stolen antiques are hidden until it is safe to sell them. In his new assistant the mayor's wife Lovejoy confides fascinating antiques tips. Other memorable characters include Prammie Joe who keeps illegally acquired antiques on a small barge hidden in the reedy landscape and the Great Marvella a fortune teller/masseuse/ventriloquist who employs a snake to pronounce her clients' fortunes. This gem should secure Gash's fortunes." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016101 ISBN : 0312076207 9780312076207

‎Wallace, Robert‎

‎Paint Out‎

‎London United Kingdom: Gollancz 1990. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE . The third Essington Holt thriller. First Edition / UK. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Gollancz Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016191 ISBN : 0575045876 9780575045873

‎Gilbert, Michael‎

‎PAINT GOLD AND BLOOD‎

‎NY NY: Harper 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket not price clipped spine sunned with protective mylar cover. . The twenty-ninth book by one of the masters of the classic mystery/adventure story features a mix of astrology art and terrrorism. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Harper Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 016227 ISBN : 0060162066 9780060162061

‎Goulart, Ron‎

‎The Wisemann Originals‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Walker & Co 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges slightly age-toned else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. A Navarro and Briggs mystery. There is a small pen mark onthe front page else fine. "Missing drawings by a German artist of the '20s and '30s and art masterpieces hidden by the Nazis provide the motive for two murders in this absorbing mystery. Rudy Navarro an operative with a detective agency whimsically named the Ajax Novelty Company is detailed to find some 240 drawings by artist Heinrich Wisemann a Jew who died in Dachau; the works have been missing since the end of WW II. To help Navarro hires his old friend unemployed art director Jack Briggs a specialist in artists of Wisemann's period. Briggs unfortunately is also an alcoholic and very susceptible to women a number of whom he has married. The mismatched pairNavarro is neat methodical and on a health kickhead for Orlando where three of the drawings have surfaced. There they find that they have competition from other collectors of Wisemann's work including an unpleasant character in a ski mask who has tortured and killed others trying locate the trunk full of drawings. A tough female police detective a triple-crossing dame and an alleged Mafia biggie complicate Navarro's and Briggs's task." -- PW. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Walker & Co‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015413 ISBN : 0802757227 9780802757227

‎Davis Nageeba‎

‎A DYING ART‎

‎New York and Philadelphia: Prime Crime 2001. First edition so stated July 2001 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover illustration by Mary Anne Lasher. Art teacher and sculptor Maggie Keane is having a real bad day and it all started with a dead body in her toilet. Things don't get much better as the day goes on. Set in the rarefied air of Colorado. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Lasher Mary Anne. Book. Prime Crime Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015626 ISBN : 0425179516 9780425179512

‎Hanson, Rick‎

‎Still Life‎

‎New York NY: Kensington Pub Corp 1996. 1st edition June 1996 . Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Having fun with the artistic and spiritual excesses of Taos N.M. as he mixes murder and wisecracking nutcases Hanson seems at first to go over the top. But the goofiness grows on you. Ex-cop Adam McCleet Spare Parts; Mortal Remains travels to Taos in his third offbeat adventure eager to display his sculptures in a show arranged by his girlfriend Allison Brooks a Portland Ore. gallery owner. Outside of town McCleet becomes prime suspect in the murder of an old prospector. The death may be connected to the search for an interplanetary time traveler who landed in Taos and legend has it is buried thereabouts. Countless loopy locals are obsessed with finding the grave. There's Rob Crusoe a former rock star now leading a cult devoted to military drills and nude volleyball; Gunter Bjornsen a rich retired scientist who lives in a high-tech teepee and has part of a map to the alien grave; McCleet's own much-divorced sister Margot and her property caretaker Whines For No Reason known as Whiney. Under attack by rattlesnakes snipers and tabloid reporters McCleet must find the killer to clear his name and save his neck. Hanson who maintains the good humor throughout has Taos's spirit down pat: "I own an art gallery" Allison tells Whiney. "Who doesn't" he responds." -- Publishers Weekly. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Kensington Pub Corp Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014951 ISBN : 1575660415 9781575660417

‎Elkins, Aaron J.‎

‎A DECEPTIVE CLARITY‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Walker & Co 1987. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly age toned else about fine in fine dust jacket jacket is lightly rubbed at rear panel not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Chris Norgren art museum curator in Seattle Washington is featured in the debut in this series. Sent to the U.S. air base in Germany to mount an exhibit of Old Masters that the Americans have retrieved from the Nazis art historian Chris Morgan encounters forgery and the murder of his associate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Walker & Co Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 015202 ISBN : 0802756662 9780802756664

‎Ferrigno, Robert‎

‎THE WAKE-UP AWARD FINALIST‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Pantheon Books 2004. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. An art related mystery featuring Frank Thorpe. He is on the trail of a legit business man who is scamming the art world. A SHAMUS AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel. Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche. Frank really needs some R & R. He’s just been fire -- over a fatal screw up -- from the covert operations "shop"he’s worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum—a hard-charging art dealer—needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme just a little wake-up call. Given Frank’s background and his expertise in good guy/bad guy tactics it’s easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn’t someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She’s a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who with her surfer-dude husband the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals runs a huge drug operation. And she’s got an invincible thug duo -- Vlad and Arturo -- to carry out her notions of payback which make Frank’s wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good if slightly underhanded deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos -- and what he himself hears in the wake-up call—is the fuel that drives this full-throttle terrifically entertaining novel. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Pantheon Books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014777 ISBN : 0375422498 9780375422492

‎Kilmer, Nicholas‎

‎O SACRED HEAD: A Fred Taylor Mystery‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co Metropolitan Books 1997. 1st edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The third installment of this mystery series featuring Fred Taylor and set in the Boston/Cambridge art world. "It's not easy writing a mystery set in the art world without sounding like you're imitating Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy novels. Luckily Kilmer's Fred Taylor mysteries don't feel like imitations. Kilmer a painter and art dealer certainly knows his field. In this third entry in the series Taylor investigates a murder involving a rare seventeenth-century painting and a decapitated victim. The tale is chock-full of fascinating hints for readers interested in collecting fine art and--unlike many experts-turned-writers certain lawyers say or physicians--Kilmer knows how to construct a plot. O Sacred Head. like its predecessors it's very well written and the solution to the mystery is elusive enough to keep readers turning the pages." --- Booklist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Henry Holt & Co (Metropolitan Books) Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014600 ISBN : 0805050337 9780805050332

‎Clothier Peter‎

‎CHIAROSCURO SIGNED COPY‎

‎NY: St Martins Press 1985. 2nd ed. Near fine in light rubbed dj remainder stamp at bottom of pages. SIGNED by the author. Art mystery. Modern master painter Jacob Molnar turned his back on the art world in the mid-1970s licking self-inflicted wounds after a divorce and repulsed by the art scene's mixture of hype and greed. But when a young painter whom he would ordinarily have no time for comes to Molnar a decade later with what might be evidence of a lucrative art scam Molnar is intrigued. That painter is murdered shortly afterward so Molnar re-enters the high stakes world he'd left behind wanting justice and hoping that that the inside knowledge he once had might serve him well without making him even more cynical or reclusive. Signed by Author. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014499 ISBN : 031213178x 9780312131784

‎McClendon, Lise‎

‎PAINTED TRUTH: An Alix Thorssen Mystery‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Walker & Co 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Set in Jackson Wyo. where the Old West merges with upscale art galleries and white-water rafting concessions this lightening-fast adventure has enough false trails to stock a national park. Introduced in The Bluejay Shaman the self-mocking narrator Alix Thorssen "semiprosperous art dealer so-so kayaker single girl thirty-something" faces upheaval and betrayal on all sides. Her gallery and her partnership with the wildly appealing Paolo Segundo seem to be at a crossroads. When a neighboring gallery goes up in a spectacular blaze and the body of a local artist "He was big in the seventies" is found inside Alix is drawn into the case as an appraiser and finds herself wondering why the police were so quick to label the crime arson/suicide. Of course she's right. But not as right as she thinks; what she doesn't know nearly kills her and does kill someone close to her. As Alix pursues an investigation that ultimately pits her professional self-interest against her ethics." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book. Walker & Co Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014171 ISBN : 0802732712 9780802732712

‎Harvey, John‎

‎In a True Light: A Novel of Crime‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub 2002. 1st US edition. Slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. Set in London New York and Northern Tuscany at the present time and in New York's Greenwich village in the late 1950's. A crime novel it is also a novel about paintings and painters about identy and belonging and accepting responsibility for others and ourselves. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Carroll & Graf Pub Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 014213 ISBN : 0786710535 9780786710539

‎Hardwick, Mollie‎

‎PARSON'S PLEASURE‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1987. 1st US edition with complete number line beginning with 1 fine in dust jacket lightly sunned at spine not price clipped with protective mylar cover. "Doran Fairweather's second caper after Malice Domestic takes her to Warwickshire to track down the theft of priceless antiques from a rather eccentric elderly member of the aristocracy Lady Timberlake. What starts off as a working holiday with her boyfriend the prudish Rodney Chelmarsh quickly turns serious when one of the leads Fairweather is investigating a gypsy antiques dealer is brutally murdered. Chelmarsh is the first to realize that Fairweather's own life may be in jeopardy. Hardwick has managed to breathe fresh life into this fairly conventional mystery. Everything is vaguely familiar from the cast of dotty characters to the locale but this only adds to the book's charm." -- PW. First US. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001318 ISBN : 0712614699 9780712614696