Masterclass [Master Class] [Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof Advance Reading Copy]

West, Morris

ISBN 10: 0091736579 / ISBN 13: 9780091736576

Published by Hutchinson, London, 1988

About this Item

Trade paperback, "No 53 in a limited edition of 500", undated (but 1988), 330 pages; tiny traces of shelf wear, otherwise in unread condition.

Seller Inventory # 039147

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masterclass [Master Class] [Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof Advance Reading Copy]
• Publisher: Hutchinson, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091736579
• ISBN 13: 9780091736576
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: Limited Edition.
• Condition: Very Good ++
• Book Type: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science - Sociology and Anthropology
  • Current Affairs
  • Political Science

About this title

Synopsis

Max Mather is 35, good looking, has a way with women, enjoys his leisure, can cook up a storm, and is repaying the attentions lavished on him by an Italian millionairess by serving as archivist on her family's collection of manuscripts - a not-quite-kept man. Upon her death, his patroness leaves Max his choice of a memento to be selected from the family holdings, whereupon he picks a wrapped package containing two Raphael originals - well beyond what she or the family would intend, if they knew about them!To avoid a legal battle, he sets out to mask his ownership and have the works "discovered". Big-time collectors, dealers and auctioneers are drawn into Mather's game. In trying to out-deal the deal-makers, he becomes involved in the tangled web surrounding the brutal murder of a Manhattan artist, whose creativity extended from the canvas to the bedroom. The two stories intertwine in a fast-paced tale of intrigue and murder in the international art trade.

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