Description: Incipient international art dealer Jonathan Argyll is eager to be the conduit for a minor French painting on it's way to the buyer in Rome. But when he arrives, the buyer refuses the painting and then dies. Adding injury to insult, Argyl...
Synopsis Incipient international art dealer Jonathan Argyll is eager to be the conduit for a minor French painting on it's way to the buyer in Rome. But when he arrives, the buyer refuses the painting and then dies. Adding injury to insult, Argyll discovers that the painting he's holding is hot--apparently it was stolen during the war and played a part in the betrayal of the Resistance. Finally Flavia di Stefano, Argyll's girlfriend, is forced to take charge and save her incompetent boyfriend.
Details
Publication Date:
2002-12-01
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Length:
336 pages
Height:
8.3 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
10.4 oz
Publisher's Note Hired to deliver a painting from a Parisian art dealer to a client in Rome, British art historian and amateur sleuth Jonathan Argyll suddenly finds himself caught up in a double murder and begins a probe that uncovers a secret hidden since World War II. Reprint.