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The Medici conspiracy

the illicit journey of looted antiquities, from Italy's tomb raiders to the world's greatest museums
2006
Exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts and the exploits of Giacomo Medici, an Italian antiquities dealer and mastermind of illegal business dealings involving priceless artifacts.

The mystery of the Mona Lisa

France
2007
Secret agent Jack Stalwart travels to France to investigate the disappearance of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Great robberies

2001
Examines seven famous robberies from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the art heist of "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire"; the Northfield Bank robbery; the Reichsbank robbery; the Brink's job; the Great Train Robbery; the 1981 First National Bank of Arizona robbery; and the 1990 Gardner Museum art heist.

The world to come

a novel
2006
Former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, pushed by his twin sister Sara into attending a singles' cocktail hour at a Jewish art museum, steals a Marc Chagall painting that once hung in his home, and begins investigating the provenance of the work in an effort to learn how it came to the museum, while urging Sara, an artist, to create a forgery to take its place.

Cold hit

1999
When the body of a famous art dealer washes up on the shores of Manhattan, Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper joins NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace in a search for the killer that leads them into the dark underworld of art theft.

The Eskimo's secret

1991
Nancy suspects that sabotage in a chain of West Coast shops selling imported art objects is connected with the theft of a valuable Eskimo sculpture.

Chasing C?zanne

1997
Photographer Andre Kelly, on assignment for "Decorating Quarterly" magazine at the home of one of Cap Ferrat's wealthiest residents, happens to spot a Cezanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck and sets off on the trail of an art scam.

Loot!

the heritage of plunder
1983

The mystery of the Mona Lisa

France
2009
When the Mona Lisa is stolen, Jack Stalwart, a secret agent with the Global Protection Force, must find it before it leaves the country and is never seen again.

Tokyo heist

2013
After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.

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