The Bellini Card: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Jason Goodwin

• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 194 KB
• Edition: 1st American ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0312429355

✦ Synopsis

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award--winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating series

Jason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree , brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone , more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth." Now, in The Bellini Card , Jason Goodwin takes us back into his "intelligent, gorgeous and evocative" (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling.

Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdulmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, but--aware that the sultan's advisers are against any...