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When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career -- and a collection -...

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Main Author: Woods, Stuart (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Stone Barrington novel ; 43.
Subjects:
Barrington, Stone > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Art > Forgeries > Fiction.
Art dealers > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction.
Large print books.
Summary: When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career -- and a collection -- and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In the exclusive world of New York City's luxury penthouses and grand Hamptons estates, it will take a man of Stone Barrington's careful discernment and well-honed instincts to get to the truth without ruffling the wrong feathers. When it comes to priceless and irreplaceable works of art, the money and reputations at stake are worth killing for.
Item Description: "Thorndike Press large print basic series."
Physical Description: 405 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781432841799
1432841793
Author Notes: Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia on January 9, 1938. He received a B. A. in sociology from the University of Georgia in 1959. He worked in the advertising business and eventually wrote two non-fiction books entitled Blue Water, Green Skipper and A Romantic's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland. His first novel, Chiefs, was published in 1981. It won an Edgar Award and was made into a TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston. His other works include the Stone Barrington series, the Holly Barker series, the Will Lee series, the Ed Eagle series, the Rick Barron series and the Teddy Fay series. He won France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. His autobiography, An Extravagant Life, was published in June 2022. Stuart Woods died on July 22, 2022, at his home in Lichfield, Connecticut. He was 84.

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