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Art Forger / B.A. Shapiro.

Summary:

Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal, her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowlege is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616201326
  • Physical Description: 360 pages. ; 22 cm
  • Edition: .
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2012]

Content descriptions

Language Note:
English
Subject: Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 > Fiction.
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 > Fiction.
Art > Forgeries > Fiction.
Art forgers > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Scenic Regional.

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