Murder at the National Gallery - Hardcover

Truman, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679435301 ISBN 13: 9780679435303

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

Continuing her success in Capital Crimes, the bestselling author of First Ladies takes readers behind the exhibits at one of D.C.'s most popular attractions. When a senior curator at the National Gallery discovers a lost Caravaggio, he concocts a masterly scheme to exhibit and exploit the masterpiece, which escalates into murder as an art form.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The never-ending fascination with our nation's capital has made Margaret Truman's novels bestsellers everywhere, including in my territory in Southern California. She always is in the top 15 on the lists. And I'm looking forward to selling her new mass market paperback, MURDER IN THE WATERGATE, which we publish next summer. --Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales

From the Back Cover:

When the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, he mounts a world-class exhibition -- and plots a brilliant forgery scheme that will stun the art world.

But an artful deception suddenly becomes a portrait of blackmail and murder -- as gallery owner and part-time sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith and her husband go searching for clues in the heady arena of international art and uncover a rare collection of unscrupulous characters that leads all the way to Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679435301
• ISBN 13: 9780679435303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340