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41) Framed in France
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 11
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Lambchop is whisked away to Paris, where he must help catch a mastermind art thief at the historical Louvre museum by posing a painting"--
42) Última
Author
Publisher
Roca Bolsillo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La esperada conclusión de la serie que ha conquistado a más de un millión de lectores en todo el mundo. La glamourosa e internacionalmente conocida marchante de arte Elisabeth Teerlinc sabe bastante sobre el mundo de las falsificaciones. Después de todo, ella misma no deja de ser una especie de fraude. Su verdadera identidad, Judith Rashleigh, se encuentra enterrada bajo una fina capa de mentiras. Por no mencionar la cantidad de cadáveres que...
43) The emerald tide
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.
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Series
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English
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The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help. Soon Spenser...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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"Ocean's Eleven" meets "The Farewell" in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she's an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives for an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great Nestor Pinedo, Johanna wants to throw it in the trash where it belongs. But with some styling help from her daughter, she makes an appearance and comes face-to-face with the woman she was before the powerful and jealous Nestor ruined her. La Rosa Blanca is a portrait...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the Museum was hit. But when it finally happened, it quickly...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A scandalous and secretive painting with a very storied past has escaped! The most unlikely of patrons hires Bandette, the greatest thief in the world, to pilfer a painting whose brushstrokes hold centuries of hidden messages. Unfortunately, a series of felonious rivals contrive to snatch the art for themselves! Bandette and her adversaries utilize skill, romance and murderous intent, as the canvas passes from larcenous hand to hand as they each...
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 3
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Jack Stalwart travels to France to investigate the disappearance of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.
54) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
Author
Language
English
Description
August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and...
57) Manhunt
Author
Series
Silver Jaguar Society volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2020
Language
Español
Description
Valladolid, 2019. Sara Robles es una inspectora singular. Encargada de resolver un macabro crimen, adem̀s tiene que lidiar con sus problemas cotidianos, estrechamente relacionados con la adicci̤n al sexo y con un pasado que no termina de curar. Mientras tanto, El Espantap̀jaros, una misteriosa cabeza pensante, ha orquestado el robo perfecto junto a un exminero, un pocero y un sicario, y est̀ a punto de llevarlo a cabo a trav̌s del alcantarillado...
59) The Juliet code
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice. To their surprise, their friend, Detective Jack Miracle, is also in the city, investigating a series of art heists starting at the house of eccentric millionaire, Laraby Covington. Drawn into a world of boat races, mysterious houses, and parties of the rich and unusual in Venice, Frederick and Grace learn of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When librarian Kathleen Paulson stumbles upon the body of a visiting curator, she, her detective boyfriend, Marcus, and her magical cats, Owen and Hercules, try to track down the murderous thief before he strikes again.
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