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Author
Publisher
MacMurray & Beck
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by
the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints
his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes
the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on
the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What
Love Sees.
Author
Series
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology, engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels is due, learns to play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white, who asks the way to London. Shortly thereafter he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of this mysterious woman who has evidently escaped from an asylum. He then unwinds a story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired to teach four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Provided for by an unseen benefactor, they are surrounded at all times by hard-eyed guards in the guise of gardeners. During an investigation into a woman's death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the castle grounds -- and in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. People are...
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