**Scotland Yard's art crime detective Jack Oxby tackles the mystery behind the destruction of valuable C ezanne paintings, criss-crossing St. Petersburg, New York City, London, Provence, Boston, and Paris.** When Inspector Jack Oxby links the shocking defacing of two of the 26 extant Cezanne self-p
Chasing Cezanne
✍ Scribed by Mayle, Peter
- Book ID
- 107623396
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307791962
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✦ Synopsis
Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city's trendiest restaurant.)
It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the... ϡ쯦랠
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