Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art
by Knelman, Joshua
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1553658914
- ISBN 13
- 9781553658917
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About This Item
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. 314 pages; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Joshua Knelman, with a personalized inscription. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A young journalist from Toronto spends four years immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art theft, traveling from Cairo to New York, London, Montreal and Los Angeles. He befriends the slippery Paul, a master thief who got his start in Brighton as a knocker--traveling door to door as a junk collector while secretly scanning homes for valuables that he would steal later on. He gets caught up in the world of Donald Hrycyk, a detective who works on a shoestring budget in downtown L.A. to recover stolen art. Through alternating chapters focusing on Paul and a small international network of detectives, the story of the thief and the detective unfolds, revealing the dramatic rise of international art theft. Joshua Knelman's investigation finds there are only a handful of detectives, FBI agents and lawyers fighting a global battle against a thriving black market estimated to be one of the largest in the world. Meanwhile, the chain of criminals moves from thugs on the street to multinational organized crime syndicates, to a global network of art dealers who wash the artworks' provenance clean again. In a surprise ending, Knelman learns that corruption can appear in the unlikeliest places. A major work of investigative journalism, Hot Art is a globetrotting mystery filled with cunning and eccentric characters." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art
- Author
- Knelman, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1553658914
- ISBN 13
- 9781553658917
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Art Market; American / 7. Contemporary, 2000-; Art Crime;
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