By Aaron Elkins
Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance paintings professional, heads to Berlin to aid in mounting a sensational convey: The Plundered Past—twenty valuable outdated Masters looted by means of the Nazis, inspiration for many years to be misplaced perpetually, and just recently rediscovered.
yet issues fast get out of hand while Chris’s patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery within the lot, turns up useless the very subsequent day—on the stairs of a gloomy Frankfurt brothel, of all locations. Now, Chris faces a frightening job: discovering a counterfeit art one of the masterpieces—and an all-too-real killer whose attractions at the moment are set on him.
A misleading Clarity is the 1st within the Chris Norgren Mysteries by means of the a number of award–winning author of the Gideon Oliver “Skeleton Detective” novels—a celebrated grasp who “thoroughly is familiar with the paintings of the homicide secret” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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He dabbed at his lips with his napkin and tossed it on the table in a way that indicated lunch was over. I was far from satisfied. " "But he had nothing to tell, you see. I told him no more than I've told you舒quite a bit less, actually, and only in passing. In fact, no one has any idea what I've found ... " His eyes flashed briefly with private excitement. " Like it or not, I had to settle for that. Peter left for Tegel Airport, and I took a taxi back to Tempelhof through the intervening miles of gray, blank-faced apartment buildings.
Tony shrugged a little further into his coat and began to button it "Look, to be perfectly candid, I don't really know what you'll be doing. As far as I can see, there's barely enough to keep one man busy, let alone two. " "What the hell," I agreed. " "Just show up in Berlin Wednesday. " "Sure, why not? " "Are you kidding? " "Forget them. I'll take care of them. You know I'm not going to cut your department. And you know Sawacki can run Renaissance and Baroque for you for a couple of months. " "What else?
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