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81) Loose and easy
Author
Series
Steele Street novels volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Johnny Ramos had just come off a tour of duty in Afghanistan to find Esmee Alden trolling the mean streets of Denver in red lace and leather. Esmee's in danger so deep, only Johnny can get her out--which is why the elite government operative is shadowing her every move. Esmee, a P.I. and an art-recovery expert, has a mother lode of bad guys on her trail...including the one bad boy she always wanted: Johnny. But passion will have to wait. Because when...
Author
Publisher
Collins Crime Club / Harpercollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
1888. After a disasterous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's father, the Earl of Pellingham and a famous art collector...
83) Framed
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 15
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 15
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 15
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 15
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A prince is in River Heights. A prince! Granted, he's from a relatively minor royal family, but still. This is big news. The headlines get even bigger once the prince is found toting a painting for his family's good friend, Mrs. Mahoney--because within hours of his arrival, the federal authorities arrest him. They suspect he stole the painting from his family. Dad and I aren't buying it. We have a hunch there's more to this--ahem--picture. But...
Author
Publisher
Motivational Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On a brisk winter morning in 2004, after leaving early from their final exams for the fall semester, four 19 and 20-year-old college students park an unmarked van outside of the Transylvania University Private Collections Museum. Home to a collection of some of the most valuable rare books and paintings in the world, including John James Audubon's Birds of America and Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species, the four young men enter the building...
86) Thai die
Author
Series
Needlecraft mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkeley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, Betsy Devonshire must put her sleuthing talents to work when one of her regular customers unwittingly becomes embroiled in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities.
Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cookie Monster and his friends share adventures in the new Museum of Modern Cookies.
A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie painting, like "Girl with the cookie earring" and the "Muncha Lisa", Cookie Monster and his friends feel as if they're in a whole new world. But when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can Cookie Monster clear his name? Will they find the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When art thief Lars Heinrich returns to New York City, Eddie Red races against the clock on a wild chase through the city's historical monuments to stop what could be one of the greatest heists in history.
"In the thrilling and fast-paced third installment of the illustrated Eddie Red Undercover series, elusive art thief Lars Heinrich returns to New York City looking to settle a score. Super sleuth seventh-grader Edmund Xavier Lonrrot will need not...
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 003
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The third book in this graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases details the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist—the largest, and one of the most famous, art thefts in the world. CASE NO. 003: THE GARDNER MARCH 18, 1990 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1:24 a.m. Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one...
91) The maiden heist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Charles, Roger, and George are museum security guards who take their jobs very seriously. But when they learn their favorite artworks are being sent to another museum, they concoct a plan to switch the real masterpieces with fakes. All goes well until a mistake forces these first-time thieves into a last-minute escapade.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While working at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Sophie, who fled Germany after witnessing the government-sanctioned burning of modern, "degenerate" art, steals looted masterpieces from the Nazis, replacing them with forgeries with the help of her sister-in-law, risking more than her life to keep these paintings safe.
93) Heretics
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a masterpiece on loan for the opening of an international exhibition is stolen in a manner calculated to embarrass the Italian government, Flavia di Stefano is ordered by the newly installed prime minister to recover the painting at all costs. Working together, Flavia and Bottando devise a plan to recover the painting. But no sooner has the ransom been paid than the art-napper is found dead under highly suspicious circumstances.
96) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
p1997.
Language
English
Description
After a failed suicide attempt Maggie has lived with Sir Charles Stafford for ten years. But after he is murdered and a valuable painting is stolen she sets out to track down the painting and the murderer.
Author
Series
Hollywood Station volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
Author
Series
Lovejoy mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Roxy Abruzzo mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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