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The rescue artist : a true story of art, thieves, and the hunt for a missing masterpiece /
In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's The Scream. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English,...
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New York, NY :
Harper Collins Publishers,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Two men and a ladder: Break-in
- Easy pickings
- Whodunit
- Priests
- Art squad
- Rescue Artist
- Vermeer and Irish Gangster: Screenwriters
- Man from the Getty
- General
- Russborough house
- Encounter in Antwerp
- Munch
- Man from the Getty: Watch the papers
- Art of seduction
- First encounter
- Fiasco at the plaza
- Russborough house redux
- Money is honey
- Dr. No
- This is Peter Brewgal
- Mona Lisa smile
- Gangsters
- Undercover game: Crook or clown
- Prop trap
- First time undercover
- Trick of it
- Front-row seat
- Crook's tale
- Can I interest you in a Rembrandt
- Traffic stop
- In the basement: Stranger
- On the road
- Hands up
- Thrill of the hunt
- Plan
- Down those stairs
- End of the trail.