The Rescue Artist - A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

Zusatztext "Dolnick...writes with a crisp! breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases." Informationen zum Autor Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown , The Forger’s Spell , and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist . A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe , he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C. Klappentext In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream . It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever. Zusammenfassung In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994! two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings! Edvard Munch's Scream . It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated! the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English! half American undercover cop named Charley Hill! the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats! intrepid investigators! and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself! a complicated mix of brilliance! foolhardiness! and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever. ...

Product details

• Authors: Edward Dolnick
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780060531188
• ISBN: 978-0-06-053118-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Graphic Design, Europe, True Crime, European History, Decorative arts, History of Art, Modernism, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Organized crime, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Performance Art, Book design and Bookbinding, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Criminal law: procedure and offences, HISTORY: WORLD, TRUE CRIME: General, HISTORY: Social History, HISTORY: Modern / General, ART: General, TRUE CRIME: Historical, LAW: Criminal Law / General, ART: Performance, DESIGN: Book