The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner (P.S.) - Softcover

Dolnick, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060531185 ISBN 13: 9780060531188

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

The Rescue Artist This suspense-filled book tells the true story of the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, and the brilliant detective who gets it back. Includes a 16-page b&w photo insert. Full description

About this title

Review:

"Dolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases."--Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A big shout-out to Edward Dolnick for The Rescue Artist."----Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway KS

"The Rescue Artist is a masterpiece. Engrossing, entertaining, often surreally hilarious."----Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers on The Rescue Artist

"The narrative's frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year's similar The Irish Game."----Publishers Weekly

"Riveting...fascinating."--Los Angeles Times

"An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning."--Time magazine

"There has never been a better book on art crime."--ArtNews

About the Author:

Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown, The Forger's Spell, and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060531185
• ISBN 13: 9780060531188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336