Giotto's Hand
Author: Pears, Iain
ISBN: 9780007229246
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 200mm x 126mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’.
General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed ‘Giotto’, is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue.
In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando’s colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk – only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career…
ISBN: 9780007229246
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 200mm x 126mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’.
General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed ‘Giotto’, is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue.
In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando’s colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk – only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career…
