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Murders and Masterpieces - A Venetian Mystery
Paperback
Series: Rachele Modiano Mendes Investigates, Book 2
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781068611131
Publisher: Perpetuum Mobile Limited
Published: Nov 14 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Venice1866, a Frenchman on his honeymoon, sees an artist sketching a scene. When he visits his workshop, he falls in love with the painting and commissions five versions: one for himself, one for his two siblings, one for his parents, and another small one as a sample to show them while waiting for the others to arrive.
Venice 1950. Somebody kills an art dealer using one piece of a frame removed from one of the five versions he had in his gallery for sale. Who did it? Why did he take out one side of a frame? A few days later, somebody breaks into the warehouse of an auction house, where another of the five versions is waiting to be auctioned, and removes the left side of the frame. Who broke in? What were they looking for? Is there something hidden in the frame?
Rachele Modiano Mendes helps Vice Commissario Umberto De Antoni figure out who is behind the murder and the break-in, what is hidden in the frame, and who hid it. The duo manages to find the culprit with the help od the descendants of Israel Alcan, the men who commissioned the five copies. Those that were im Venioce are either accounted
Rachele Modiano Mendes investigates - Book 2
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