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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781497604988

<DIV><B>A notorious French art dealer is murdered in this &ldquo;thoroughly entertaining&rdquo; mystery by the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author of the Gideon Oliver series (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> It is a headline?making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. Ren&eacute; Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish &ldquo;experts&rdquo; of the art establishment. And thanks to the web of strings attached to Vachey&rsquo;s donation (e.g., no scientific testing permitted), even Rembrandt expert Chris is uncertain as to whether or not the painting is authentic.<BR /><BR /> His doubts multiply when he goes to Dijon to examine it and finds himself in the middle of a host of controversies of which Vachey is the devilish focus. But there is no doubt that the bullet soon found in Vachey&rsquo;s head is authentic. And there is no telling how much time Chris has to find the truth about the &ldquo;masterpiece&rdquo;&mdash;and the murder&mdash;before he finds himself painted into a corner by a shrewd and villainous murderer.<BR /><BR /> 1993 Nero Award, given by the Nero Wolfe Society/the Wolfe Pack for literary excellence in the mystery genre.</DIV>