The Lost Van Gogh
Title | The Lost Van Gogh PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Zerries |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2006-05-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765312506 |
A Van Gogh painting stolen during World War II mysteriously appears at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While investigating the painting's past to determine its true owner, NYPD Major Case Squad detective Clay Ryder becomes obsessed with the mystery surrounding the thief who first stole it.
The Last Van Gogh
Title | The Last Van Gogh PDF eBook |
Author | Alyson Richman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2006-10-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101546247 |
A historical romance novel of love, artistry, and Vincent Van Gogh’s muse in 19th century France Summer, 1890. Van Gogh arrives at Auvers-sur-Oise, a bucolic French village that lures city artists to the country. It is here that twenty-year-old Maurguerite Gachet has grown up, attending to her father and brother ever since her mother’s death. And it is here that young Vincent Van Gogh will spend his last summer, under the care of Doctor Gachet—homeopathic doctor, dilettante painter, and collector. In these last days of his life, Van Gogh will create over 70 paintings, two of them portraits of Marguerite Gachet. But little does he know that, while capturing Marguerite and her garden on canvas, he will also capture her heart. Both a love story and historical novel, The Last Van Gogh recreates the final months of Vincent’s life—and the tragic relationship between a young girl brimming with hope and an artist teetering on despair.
The Van Gogh Deception
Title | The Van Gogh Deception PDF eBook |
Author | Deron R. Hicks |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-08-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1328698882 |
Dan Brown meets Jason Bourne in this riveting middle-grade mystery thriller. When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC’s National Gallery without any recollection of who he is, so begins a high-stakes race to unravel the greatest mystery of all: his identity. As the stakes continue to rise, the boy must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one of the greatest art frauds ever attempted. Digitally interactive, this breathtaking museum mystery offers QR codes woven throughout the book that bring renowned paintings to readers’ fingertips.
The Lost Van Gogh
Title | The Lost Van Gogh PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Zerries |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2007-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466819472 |
When Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Monsieur Trabuc turns up unexpectedly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a $50 million painting shipped from Argentina via UPS, like an ordinary package—the case goes to Clay Ryder, the NYPD Major Case Squad detective assigned to art theft. Ryder discovers that in Paris, late 1944, a Jewish widow accused a German SS officer of stealing the painting. The officer was reported to have died in a car crash at the war's end, and the whereabouts of the Trabuc between then and now remain a mystery. Ryder's search for the widow's heirs leads him to Rachel Meredith, who teaches at NYU. The museum presents the painting to her in a spectacular public ceremony that winds up on the front page of newspapers around the world. Though the case is closed, Ryder can't seem to shake it. When Rachel Meredith is attacked, she calls on him; what might be a simple assault doesn't quite add up. And he still wonders who sent the van Gogh from Argentina. One of his most reliable contacts in the art world floats a theory that ties the van Gogh portrait to a black market auction in the 70's that might have involved a Swiss art dealer and an international crime kingpin with unlimited cash. Then Israel's Mossad pays Ryder a clandestine visit; the news splash about the van Gogh is the first link they've had to the SS officer in decades. Meanwhile, art dealers, auction houses, and museums vie to buy the van Gogh from Rachel Meredith. When she refuses to sell, the situation goes from predatory to violent. Ryder has to race against time to outmaneuver a cunning mastermind who will resort to as many murders as it takes to get hold of the Trabuc. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Lost Van Gogh
Title | The Lost Van Gogh PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Santlofer |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2024-01-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1728258987 |
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER! "Ingeniously plotted, irresistibly readable, brimming with inside information about the high-stakes art world of theft, forgery, and murder...Also included are brilliantly rendered drawings by the author, who is as accomplished an artist as he is a writer of suspense thrillers." —Joyce Carol Oates From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpieces, masterminds, and mystery. For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover what may be the missing portrait, they are drawn into a most epic art puzzles. When only days later the painting disappears again, they are reunited with INTERPOL agent John Washington Smith in a dangerous and deadly search that will not only expose secrets of the artist's last days but draws them into one of history's darkest eras. Beneath the paint and canvas, beneath the beauty and the legend, the artwork has become linked with something evil, something that continues to flourish on the dark web and on the shadiest corridors of the underground art world. Alternating between Luke Perrone's perilous hunt for the painting, and a history of stolen art and stolen lives, The Lost Van Gogh is an intricately layered historical thriller perfect for fans of The Last Mona Lisa and The Night Portrait.
And The Rat Laughed (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Title | And The Rat Laughed (EasyRead Comfort Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 302 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1442973692 |
Vincent Van Gogh & the Colors of the Wind
Title | Vincent Van Gogh & the Colors of the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Chiara Lossani |
Publisher | Eerdmans Young Readers |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0802853900 |
A vibrantly illustrated biography of Vincent van Gogh based on letters he sent to his brother Theo.