Art Crime

William Shakespeare, lasciati momentaneamente moglie e figli nell’amata Inghilterra, è in missione per conto della Corona. La missione è segreta, segretissima, e lui, che non sa ancora di essere poeta, sbarca nelle terre della Serenissima e si stabilisce a Padova, dove c’è un inglese da trovare e riportare in patria. Padova è il centro della Repubblica di Venezia e della vita intellettuale, politica e mondana, affollata di preti, nobili, mezzane, medici, maghi o sedicenti tali, studenti, teste calde, uomini d’arme e uomini che hanno abbandonato le armi.

Some art is worth dying for. After Niki Dupre buys a painting at a Starving Artist sale, she learns that the artwork is priceless, and that there are others who also want it in their possession. The church wants it back. Two mobsters want it back. And all of them are willing to kill to get it.

A body is found hanging from a noose made from a bell rope! Is this just the start of things to come? The deceptively quiet remote village is shattered after a brazen obnoxious outsider purchases The Old Vicarage. Strange disappearances occur. It wasn’t until the gruesome village history was revealed, that the baffled police could solve the chilling mysteries connected to the bell tower.

By the long-time art critic of The Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the [Andy] Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world.

Der bekannteste Berliner Polizeireporter. Der Schriftsteller und Reporter Leo Heller tauchte in den 1920er-Jahren tief in die Berliner Unterwelt ein. Jeder Ringbruder, jeder Kneipenwirt, jedes "leichte Mädchen“ kannte Heller, der in seinen Reportagen seine Leserinnen und Leser mitnimmt auf seine nächtlichen Streifzüge. Seine beeindruckenden Milieustudien wurden von der Autorin Bettina Müller wieder entdeckt, die einen biografischen Essay zu Leo Heller anfügt.

Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success. HRF Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, brought together a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery.

Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This audiobook is about how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children. After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico, where he passed himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist.

Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper. Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations....

The necklace had once belonged to Madame Pompadour—mistress of the French King Louis XV. Now it’s gone. Stolen by a clever conman. And it will take every ounce of determination and ingenuity a young woman possesses to recover it. But can a mere girl from Calais outwit a practiced fraudster?

Rache ist süß und gemein. Der Maler Yves Honoré entzweit sich von seiner Muse Pénélope und landet in den Armen der Amerikanerin Patricia. Das neue Glück währt nur kurz, denn seine Ex terrorisiert das Paar. Als auch noch der Verlobte von Patti aus den USA dazustößt, ist das Drama perfekt. Leidtragende ist die Freundin von Patti, denn sie verschwindet spurlos. Wurde sie Opfer der Tragödie, die sich zwischen den Liebenden abspielt? Commissaire Lucie Girard muss alle Register ziehen, um zwischen Lügen und Intrigen ihr Ziel zu erreichen.

Texte susceptible de choquer. À déconseiller aux âmes sensibles. L'Art. Jusqu'où certains sont-ils prêts à aller en son nom ? Des familles entières disparaissent, enlevées à leur domicile. Une horrible machination est mise en place pour satisfaire les appétits déviants de fortunés amateurs d'art. Soraya, adolescente de 16 ans, sera-t-elle le grain de sable dans ces rouages infernaux ?

Basic customer service skills have been in place for many years, but are the things you're saying and doing actually hurting your business? Best-selling author and MBA graduate Josh Soule shares new and improved customer service techniques that will make your career a success. This short but powerful workbook covers everything from how to make your customer interactions personal to how to deal with conflict in the workplace, how to stand up to verbal abuse from a customer, money-saving strategies, and more.

Twenty-seven years after the murder of Nancy Willem, the State of California has not put Johnny Miles to death. He has lived in a one-person cell on San Quentin’s death row, among hundreds of others convicted of first-degree murder. Johnny Miles has had to find a measure of acceptance to continue living on death row; he has chosen to live while under the sentence of death. The learning curve is meant for the learned: a person that can separate flair from meaning...more or less an investigative and curious art enthusiast and/or enjoyer of abstract poetry.

A cop as well as an art historian, Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain is about to shock the world: someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud of Turin.

In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder.

Sam Carr is determined to find and kill the five men who brutally attacked him and kidnapped his girlfriend while vacationing in Hawaii. As a consequence of his actions, he is offered full immunity for any and all past crimes if he assassinates a notorious radical Islamic terrorist who is believed to be in charge of a terror cell in London. Unfortunately, things go terribly wrong on this mission. In order to find and put an end to the mysterious person responsible for reprehensible acts of terrorism, Sam must join forces with a team of undercover Mossad agents. Yet, even though Sam has been...

From the bucolic majesty, privilege, and snobbery of the Western District’s prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables, and homeless shelters, The Devil’s Grip is a courageous and thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of reputation, the folly of deception, and the power of shame.

Rowan O’Donnell is nervous about being the center of attention at the gallery opening for her photography, but also excited for her future - until she is forced to endure the sight of gallery owner, Harry Lowe, meeting a fiery death in Heather Ormsby’s fourth short novel of this amateur sleuth series. In the year since she found and rescued an abducted student from her class at a local college, Rowan has built up her own online teaching website and devoted the rest of her time to creating fine art photography for her first ever gallery show. She wishes that the gallery show, her career,...

John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidant of cops, criminals, lawyers and judges. He knows where the cash is stashed and where the bodies are buried. Naked City is a collection of Silvester's best stories, from sophisticated heists to mindless acts of violence and deeds of pure evil - impeccably sourced, wry, wise and witty.

The thrilling untold story of the trailblazing writer Janet Flanner, Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.