Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. His beautiful young widow commissions a journalist to carry out an unusual bequest in his will but as he begins his research he soon discovers a story far more complex than he could have ever…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back at all costs — without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far. Flavia de…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. The monastery of San Giovanni on Rome's Aventine hill has few treasures — only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome's art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. Paris can do strange things to a man's mind! like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. 'The Death of Socrates' is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »The Dream of Scipio», Iain Pears' first mainstream novel since «An Instance of the Fingerpost», is a work of astonishing ambition that appeals equally to the head and heart. It is set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation — the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth — and…