art thefts

Twelve-year-old detectives Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney risk their lives to find lost gold from Montana's vigilante era while working to recover two priceless Charles Russell paintings stolen from a university art museum.

A graphic novel in which Frank and Joe Hardy, Callie, and Iola must recover the Ocean of Osyria, an art treasure taken from a Middle Eastern museum, in order to save their best friend, Chet, who has been accused of stealing it.

Emma Sharpe, having been contacted by a nun at a convent on the Maine coast to answer questions about a mysterious painting with a connection to her family, finds herself in the middle of a murder and art theft investigation when the nun is found dead, and, while working with deep-cover FBI agent Colin Donovan, she soon realizes her life and heart are in danger.

The Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it's not meant to be. A blackout hits New York, and the Reillys are called into action. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack has to handle a burglary at a new SoHo gallery. Regan's best friend, Kit, is worried about Georgina, a disturbed colleague seeking revenge against young blond men. Meanwhile, actress Lorraine Lily has also come back to the city, to find her estranged husband has sold their loft to the Reillys. What's hidden in the loft's closet safe could ruin her career. Regan and Jack have yet to discover the safe, but a further person--a nervous thief--has already intruded on the Reilly's home.

While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.

Spenser puts his life in danger after he fails his assignment to protect the person responsible for handing over ransom money for a stolen painting and decides to track down the thieves and retrieve the masterpiece on his own.

Art restorer/Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon travels to Zurich to restore a Raphael owned by a Swiss banker and finds his life threatened by men attempting to hide Switzerland's shady past involving artworks confiscated from Jews during the Third Reich.

Discusses some of history greatest art thefts.