Deceptive Appearance - Hardcover
In France to advise Bellevie, a large cosmetic corporation, on its business strategy, Tim Simpson finds his suspicions about the company confirmed when the Bellevie matriarch falls to her death beneath a subway train
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From Publishers Weekly:
In his ninth appearance, Tim Simpson, the sophisticated London banker/sleuth last seen in Sheep, Goats and Soap , follows a slow-starting plot that is confined mainly with the workings of international finance, the cosmetics industry and art history. Former British rugby star Simpson is sent by White's Bank to help its French ally Maucourt Freres determine whether to buy Bellevie, a cosmetics firm in which it has a stake. Though reluctant to leave Sue, his wife of less than a year (she is a curator at the Tate Gallery), Tim plunges ahead even after learning that Maucourt analyst Michel Bonnet has been killed in a suspicious car accident near the Bellevie plant in Nantes. Old Charles Maucourt seems interested only in discussing the narrative painter Jacques-Joseph Tissot, a less celebrated contemporary of Whistler. Two deaths come in quick succession: Mme. DeLattre, head of Bellevie and Charles's lover and partner in the Resistance, is killed in a Metro accident, and another Bellevie employee dies in a fall. Tim foils a murderous attack on a Maucourt grandson, frustrates an ambush at the Bellevie plant and uncovers a simple scam, leaving unresolved the mysterious provenance of some Tissot canvasses.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Narrator Tim Simpson, consultant for a London bank's Art Fund ("The Wrong Impression"), serves as liaison between the bank and one of its French interests. He soon learns of the "accidental" death of a Frenchman researching Bellevie, the cosmetics firm. In view of additional deaths, Simpson doubles his efforts to penetrate the corporate facade, struggling with ambitious owners and apparently helpful employees. Art history asides infuse the whole with an educated, slightly dry style. Of appeal mainly to series fans.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0745120180
- ISBN 13 9780745120188
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
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