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MYSTERIES
An Art History Mystery
Death and Restoration
• Iain Pears
MYSTERY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
A disturbing painting, attributed to Caravaggio, hangs in the Roman monastery of San Giovanni, where it becomes the focal point of mysterious thievery and murder. The beautiful and vivacious Flavia di Stefano and the amiable, yet incompetent Argyll struggle to discover the culprit -- is it a suspicious Englishwoman? Or perhaps the man responsible for the painting's restoration? The scintillating sixth art mystery from the popular Jonathan Argyll series.
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The Immaculate Deception
• Iain Pears
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 213 PAGES
In this seventh Jonathan Argyll book, the beautiful and vivacious Flavia di Stefano, newly-appointed head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, along with her new husband, the diffident Argyll, investigates the theft of an important painting and uncovers a shocking secret. With her job -- and her country's reputation -- on the line, she must solve the case before it's too late.
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The Raphael Affair
• Iain Pears
MYSTERY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 226 PAGES
In the first of the popular Jonathan Argyll art mysteries, English doctoral candidate Argyll, "an amiable soul prone to tripping over his shoelaces," is arrested for vagrancy when he's found in a small church near Campo dei Fiori after hours. He's there to confirm that the painting that's long hung over the altar is a previously unidentified Raphael -- a career-making discovery, if true. To his dismay, the painting has been stolen.
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The Titian Committee
• Iain Pears
MYSTERY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 230 PAGES
In this second Jonathan Argyll book, the amiable and incompetent professor Jonathan Argyll and the vivacious Flavia di Stefano of the Italian Art Theft Squad investigate the murder of a prestigious member of the scholarly Titian Committee. Through Titian's paintings, the increasingly-amorous couple follows clues leading to the murderer -- but the subsequent deaths of an art collector and a philosopher mean that they must act quickly before the murderer strikes again.
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