A Deceptive Clarity - Hardcover

Elkins, Aaron J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802756662 ISBN 13: 9780802756664

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1987

Synopsis

Sent to the U.S. air base in Germany to mount an exhibit of Old Masters that the Americans have retrieved from the Nazis, art historian Chris Morgan encounters forgery and the murder of his associate

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From the Inside Flap:

s Norgren heads to Berlin to help mount a sensational exhibit of priceless works once thought to be lost. But the occasion turns chilling when Chris's boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the next day outside a Frankfort brothel. Now Chris faces two near-impossible tasks--finding a fake painting amng the masterpieces, and a REAL killer still at large....
"Elkins thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

About the Author:

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist and professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, “the Skeleton Detective.” There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages.
 Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for best mystery of the year for Old Bones, the fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series. He and his cowriter and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award, and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award. Mr. Elkins lives on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with Charlotte.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0802756662
• ISBN 13: 9780802756664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249