Gallery Pieces: An Art Mystery
by Witham, Larry
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1480824348
- ISBN 13
- 9781480824348
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Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, 2016. Revised. Paperback. New. Physical Info: 0.58" H x 8.5" L x 5.5" W (0.73 lbs) 258 pages. Secure ship w/track #. In his forties, Julian Peale is getting a fresh start. Formerly in Navy intelligence, he's cast his lot in the New York art world. He's landed a job with the venerable Medici Studios, which also contracts with the NYPD and FBI. On a winter morning, they've run a sting operation to track Russian art smugglers. The caper goes awry, but an odd bit of evidence remains: four art catalogs with graffiti markings. So begins Gallery Pieces, a story that will keep readers guessing until the end. Peale follows the clues where they lead. He meets a heavy at the Miami Art Fair, chases a mystery bidder at Merriweather's auction in Manhattan, and crosses paths with a Brooklyn performance artist whose pranks are dangerously entangled in the Russian intrigues. Step by step, Peale enters an art world permeated not only by the avant-garde, but by the Russian mob, hackers, forgers, hipsters, and the history of art looting in Europe during WWII. When Peale least expects it, the catalogs lead him on another trail. He is drawn into a long-forgotten mystery surrounding his grandfather, Maxwell Peale, who had been a "monuments man," a soldier who helped reclaim art looted by the Nazis. Peale is on his way to discovering paintings stolen in postwar Europe. Finding the culprits, however, brings him closer to home than he'd imagined.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16758
- Title
- Gallery Pieces: An Art Mystery
- Author
- Witham, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised
- ISBN 10
- 1480824348
- ISBN 13
- 9781480824348
- Publisher
- Archway Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington, IN
- Date Published
- 2016
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