Landscape of Lies - Hardcover

Peter Watson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689120834 ISBN 13: 9780689120831

Publisher: Scribner, 1989

Synopsis

When the sixteenth-century painting in her home becomes the object of a burglar's nocturnal, albeit unsuccessful, visit, Claire Sadler has the work appraised and discovers that it is a secret map to a treasure hidden since the time of Henry VIII.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Includes a full-color fold-out of the painting (right inside the front cover) so readers can take their own stabs at deciphering the clues.

From Publishers Weekly:

When someone tries to steal a medieval painting long owned by her family, Isobel Sadler turns for help to London art gallery owner Michael Whiting. She is amazed to learn that the picture, titled Landscape of Lies , is a "puzzle map" whose nine male figures each symbolize priceless silver relics that were squirreled away by monks when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. Isobel and Michael--who, naturally, fall in love--set out to find the treasure, but an obsessed academic who will stop at nothing, not even murder, stays a few steps ahead of them. Watson, who proved himself a master of the art-world thriller in The Caravaggio Conspiracy , has turned out an amiable entertainment that is more a self-indulgent exercise than a suspense novel. The path to the silver is strewn with red herrings and arcane clues involving Botticelli, the Bible, horticulture, classical lore and medieval iconography.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0689120834
• ISBN 13: 9780689120831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352