**_The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the_ Globe and Mail _has called a "writer to watch."_** It's early spring of 1947 in idyllic King's Cove, and the Hughes ladies, _mère et filles_ , are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for
Death of an Old Master
β Scribed by David Dickinson
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group;Constable & Robinson
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 259 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In May 1901 the Salisbury Galleries announce the biggest exhibition of the Old Master Paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense. But before it opens, one of Britain's leading art experts, Christopher Montague, is found murdered in his study. When Lord Francis Powerscourt is called in to investigate he finds every book, notepad and scrap of paper has been removed from the scene of the crime. Montague had been working on something that would have rocked the art world. Did his article that claimed a number of the "Old Masters" had been painted recently by a single hand have anything to do with his death? Powerscourt embarks on an odyssey through atreacherous world of art dealers and picture restorers in pursuit of a master forger. He travels to Sicily where the trail goes cold, but, after the thrills and danger of that wild, lawless isalnd, in a remopte corer of England, the truth is finally revealed.
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