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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 170
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-92767-7
  • EAN
  • 9780312927677
  • Characters
  • Max Mather, Edmund Bayard, Hugh Loredon, Anne-Marie Loredon, Madeleine Bayard
  • Settings
  • New York City, New York, Tuscany, Florence
  • Genres
  • fiction, mystery, crime, art, thriller
  • Release date
  • 1992