A Feast of Small Surprises (SIGNED COPY)

Van Houten, Corinne

ISBN 10: 1420851136 / ISBN 13: 9781420851137

Published by Authorhouse, 2005

About this Item

232 numbered pages with pronotional bookmark. Inscribed and signed on the title page. Tight bind with unmarked text. Faint creases on cover and a small stain on fore edge.

Seller Inventory # 006042

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Feast of Small Surprises (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1420851136
• ISBN 13: 9781420851137
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

It?s the summer of 1992 and a painting by the great seventeenth century Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is discovered in the basement of a church in Messina, Italy. Is it an original painting that has been lost over the centuries or is it a fake? The night of the opening of the exhibition of the painting in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, there is a car bombing involving an artist and his dealer. A sinister Russian, a mime, an art forger and two American ladies, are all in Florence when the car explodes. Who is responsible, and is the bomb connected to the discovery of the painting? Twists in the plot keep the surprises coming until the end.

Synopsis

It's the summer of 1992 and a painting by the great seventeenth century Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is discovered in the basement of a church in Messina, Italy. Is it an original painting that has been lost over the centuries or is it a fake? The art dealer, Valeriano Cerasi, desperately needs to have it affirmed as original, the artist, Edward Donant, knows it is a fake. At the night of the opening of the exhibition of the painting in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, both Edward and Valeriano are involved in a car bombing. A sinister Russian, a mime, an art forger and two American ladies, Anne Langlais and Maya Kelly are all in Florence when the car explodes. A week later the painting is stolen and the Italian police are determined to find the thieves. When a stolen Piranesi drawing is found in Maya's pocketbook, she and Anne find themselves deeply embroiled in what soon turns into a violent series of events involving desire and revenge, art and fraud.