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Indlæser... The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (original 2005; udgave 2005)af Edward Dolnick
Værk informationThe Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece af Edward Dolnick (2005)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a well written book on an interesting subject. I'd give it a 3.5 if they'd let me. ( ) An interesting, if slightly meandering, look at the world of high-value art theft and in particular the infamous theft of one of the versions of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” in 1994. Edward Dolnick clearly found the lead investigator, Charley Hill, more interesting and charming than I did, though. (Part of the book deals with the farcically frequent thefts of art from Russborough House in Ireland. This created some of the bigger irritations of the book for me. Dolnick refers to it as “British” (no) and describes Glandore in Cork as being “outside Dublin” (technically true, but a little like saying that NYC is “outside Boston”). The audiobook narrator had apparently never spoken to an Irish person in his life, given the occasional burst of cod-Oirish accent and the persistent inability to pronounce Martin Cahill’s name.) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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