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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a… (originale 2005; edizione 2006)di Edward Dolnick
Informazioni sull'operaThe Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece di Edward Dolnick (2005)
  
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  siriaeve | Apr 4, 2022 |  This is not just about one art theft (The Scream by Munch), but about the career, personality and job session of one of Scotland Yard's (now retired) art squad detectives. Well written. (  ) PattyLee | Dec 14, 2021 | Interesting. Main character is fun. (  ) SusanWallace | Jul 10, 2021 | #2020unreadshelfproject. A great read. A intimate look into the world of art theft and long road to recovering the works. So much interesting information packed into the book. Charley Hill has a truly great job. A lot of different thefts and recoveries are mentioned which keeps the book moving. I skimmed over a few parts, but the majority held my interest. ( ) bnbookgirl | Mar 20, 2020 | A very good account of the theft of Munch's "The Scream" in 1994, which branches out into an exploration of art heists and a semi-biography of investigator Charley Hill. Well worth a read. ( ) JBD1 | May 17, 2016 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 listeners 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)364.16 — Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Criminology Crimes and Offenses Crimes of propertyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.73)
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(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.) (