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2022., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: MYS Fic Ben Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Her Majesty the Queen investigates Volume: 2Summary Note: "Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace"--
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[1994], c1992., Harcourt Brace Call No: MYS Fic Pea Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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Ã2018., Adult, Hanover Square Press Call No: Fic Ols Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather summons them to his mansion at Owls Point. None of them have visited the family estate since they were children, when a prized painting disappeared: a self-portrait by Goya, rumored to cause madness or death upon viewing. Afterward, the family split apart amid the accusations and suspicions that followed its theft. Any hope that their grandfather planned to make amends evaporates when Teresa arrives to find the old man dead, his horrified gaze pinned upon the spot where the painting once hung. As the family gathers and suspicions mount, Teresa hopes to find the reasons behind her grandfathers death and the paintings loss. But to do so she must uncover ugly family secrets and confront those who would keep them hidden."--From publisher.
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2010., St. Martin's Griffin Call No: MYS Fic Fio Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
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2013., North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: When an American Army unit arrived at the end of the war, some soldiers appropriated items in what appeared to be abandoned circumstances. A small painting by a mid-level Polish painter is used by an ex-GI to float a bank loan which results in the founding of a manufacturing firm in Minneapolis. Now the painting and the ledger become the center of murderous attempts by the descendants of the veteran to conceal the painting's journey. World-wide efforts at repatriation of stolen art from WWII is a major ongoing effort and the story links to that effort as international operatives descend on the Twin Cities. Enter private detective Sean Sean. He is a short but effective operative who, unlike many PIs of the modern era, doesn't sleep around, doesn't shoot people unnecessarily, and has many friends among various local law enforcement agencies.
![The Case of the Purloined Painting [eBook] : A Sean Sean Mystery](/Library/images/~imageCT77295.JPG "The Case of the Purloined Painting [eBook] : A Sean Sean Mystery")
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By Mayle, Peter1997., A.A. Knopf Call No: MYS Fic May Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Paris, New York photographer Andre Kelly puts aside photography to destroy a black market in paintings. The villain is using photo shoots of art works as an occasion to substitute forgeries for the real thing, then selling the originals to Japanese and Arab collectors. By the author of Anything Considered.
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By Mina, Denise2022., Hachette Book Group Call No: NEW SC MYS Fic Min Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When amateur film-maker Lisa Lee vanishes from a Scottish seaside town, journalists Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But she may not be the hapless victim everyone thinks she is. The last film she made showed her breaking into an abandoned French chateau and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. The day after Lisa vanishes the casket is listed for auction in Paris, reserve price fifty million euros, with a catalogue entry that challenges the beliefs of a major world religion. On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry. But someone doesn't want them to find the missing girl... and will do anything to stop them.
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2013., [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] Call No: MYS Fic Rya Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Genevieve Lenard novel.Summary Note: "Despite her initial disbelief, Doctor Genevieve Lenard discovers that she is the key that connects stolen works of art, ciphers and sinister threats. Betrayed by the people who called themselves her friends, Genevieve throws herself into her insurance investigation job with autistic single-mindedness. When hacker Francine appears beaten and bloodied on her doorstep, begging for her help, Genevieve is forced to get past the hurt of her friends' abandonment and team up with them to find the perpetrators. Little does she know that it will take her on a journey through not one, but two twisted minds to discover the true target of their mysterious messages. It will take all her personal strength and knowledge as a nonverbal communications expert to overcome fears that could cost not only her life, but the lives of many others"--Page [4] of cover.
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2006., St. Martin's Press Call No: MYS Fic Arc Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![False impression [McN]](/Library/images/~imageCT64584.JPG "False impression [McN]")
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2011., Adult, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he's a master of his profession. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that's been lost since World War II - and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve's apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that's ever happened to Roger Brown.
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c2014., Adult, Harper Call No: Fic Sil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gabriel Allon novels Volume: 14Summary Note: Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.
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2014., 120000., Harper Audio Call No: CD Fic Sil Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is at work in Venice repairing an altarpiece when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must perform one simple task: Find the most famous missing painting in the world. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one... The dead man is a fallen spy with a secret: he has been trafficking in stolen artworks and selling them to a mysterious collector. Among those paintings is the world's most iconic missing masterpiece: Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence. Gabriel embarks on a daring gambit to recover the Caravaggio that will take him on an exhilarating hunt--from Marseilles and Corsica, to Paris and Geneva, and, finally, to a small private bank in Austria, where a dangerous man stands guard over the ill-gotten wealth of one of the world's most brutal dictators" --
![The heist [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76598.JPG "The heist [CD] : a novel")
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[2004]., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic How to Steal Edition: [Widescreen]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studio classic Volume: 25.Summary Note: A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
![How to steal a million [DVD] (1966). Directed by William Wyler.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "How to steal a million [DVD] (1966). Directed by William Wyler.")
![Lifeguard [McN] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT63255.JPG "Lifeguard [McN] : a novel")
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2021., General, riverrun Call No: SC MYS Fic May Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: [Enzo files Volume: 7Summary Note: "In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and GÜring.What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings."--Publisher.
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c2010., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic Par Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
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2022., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Jam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Roy Grace series Volume: 18Summary Note: Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true - until the day it did... They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece from 1770?
