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Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Willem de Kooning's oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita Alter, a deceased New Mexico married couple. The film features interviews with the Alters' family members and those involved in the painting's disappearance and recovery. The film also utilizes actors to stage reenactments...
83) Gambit
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Michael Caine rolls the dice but Shirley MacLaine could end up the big loser in this witty suspense yarn that finds the duo attempting to steal a priceless art treasure. Their foolproof scheme backfires and they must pull out all the stops in order to come out on top.
84) Thai die
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. Just back from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show her stitching friends her souvenirs, which includes dazzling Thai silk. She also has a small stone Buddha that she agreed to deliver to an antique store in St. Paul. It's wrapped in a dirty rag, which she throws away. When she meets the dealer,...
85) Loot
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.
87) The gilded seal
Author
Series
Tom Kirk series volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It takes a thief to catch a killer . . .
Once one of the world's foremost art thieves, Tom Kirk now operates on the other side of the law. But a grisly discovery at the site of the brazen theft of a Da Vinci painting-a crime that bears the unmistakable hallmark of an old nemesis-entangles him in a lethal weave of a mystery that blankets the globe . . . and reaches back through hundreds of years of European history.
In Spain, a friend, a master forger,...
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
89) Clean break
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Monet painting is stolen from a castle in England and an investigation shows the alarm system was neutralized. Kate Brannigan, owner of the company which installed the system, goes to Italy to find the thieves. By the author of Common Murder
90) One wrong move
Author
Series
Jeopardy falls volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until her career was destroyed....
91) The blue hammer
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 18
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left...
93) Le mariage
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Critics hail Diane Johnson as a cross between Jane Austen and Henry James. In this best-selling comedy of Americans abroad and Parisians at home, she celebrates the mores and manners of contemporary marriage. Struggling American writer Tim Nolinger pursues his journalism career in Paris while proper Frenchwoman Anne Sophie plans their wedding. When Tim covers the theft of a valuable manuscript, the story leads the couple to the local home of a reclusive...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When precious heirloom quilts hand-stitched by her mother turn up missing, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers some while accepting others as lost forever. She is then able to reflect on the woman her mother was and mourn the woman she never knew.
95) Framed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew tries to free a prince who has been framed for the theft of a painting
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
100) Artworks
Publisher
Artist View Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
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