The Canvas Thief

Author : P. Kirby
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426897191

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The Canvas Thief by P. Kirby Pdf

Maya saw her first demon when she was seven. She learned to hide what she saw, ignore the paranormal beings around her and build an ordinary life. But she had to tell her secrets somehow, so she began drawing, creating her own world, her own characters. Twenty years after that first demon entered her life, her normal existence is shattered when she's faced with two of her comic book characters come to life. Living in our world for years, each has his own agenda. Benjamin Black, sexy thief with a cause, wants to get back to his own world. The world Maya thought she created. Only now he says she's his reason to stay in this one. Adam Richards, once a cop, now a ruthless crime lord, wants to be immortal and he'll do anything, including hurting Maya's loved ones, to get what he wants. The problem is, the men are inextricably linked through Maya's drawings. Ridding the world of Adam means Benjamin disappears from Maya's life forever... 94,000 words

Author : Michael Finkel
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735278967

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The Art Thief by Michael Finkel Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

Author : Chris Ewan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849830485

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The Good Thief's Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan Pdf

Charlie Howard - mystery writer and professional thief - is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the trade by breaking into the man's own apartment. Trouble ensues when it turns out the apartment belongs to someone else. The next day, Charlie's fence hires him to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting - from the same address. Mere coincidence? Charlie reckons there's no harm in finding out - until a dead body turns up in his living room. Hiding in a Montmartre hotel, Charlie tries to work out how to save his skin, while also placating his agent Victoria, who has arrived unannounced in the mistaken belief that Charlie actually looks like the author photo he provided.

Author : Richard Doetsch
Publisher : Dell
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440337324

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The Thieves of Faith by Richard Doetsch Pdf

Beneath the Kremlin lies a shocking ancient truth. And it’s about to be stolen.… Since the times of Ivan the Terrible, generations of Russian leaders have turned the Kremlin into a fortress within a fortress, stocking its labyrinthine underground with secret vaults, elegant chambers, and priceless treasures. Now a master thief has the ultimate motivation to stage an assault on the Kremlin’s inner sanctum. Two lives depend on it. Thousands of years of religious faith hinge on it. And a man’s conscience, skill, and passion will not let him fail. For Michael St. Pierre, history’s most daring heist is only one piece of an intricate puzzle reaching from an ancient monastery in Scotland to a hideaway in Corsica—where a madman has built an empire of terror. Haunted by his own family secrets, and surrounded by the precious few people he can trust, Michael will take on a mission that will make him the most hunted man in the world. But when an astounding truth, buried deep beneath the Kremlin, erupts with shattering force, he may unleash a relic too dangerous to possess.…

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCR:31210011006101

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FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. Kirby
Publisher : Decadent Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161333060X

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The Music of Chaos by P. Kirby Pdf

Regan O'Connell has a PhD and a good job as a project manager with a consulting company. Unbeknownst to her human co-workers, she's 130 years old, and has a magical pedigree that includes vampires and elven royalty. Immature by the standards of immortals, she has little control over the magic that simmers in her blood. For more than a century, she has worked as a secret operative for the vampire syndicate the Grey Brethren. For just as long, she has hidden her magical disability, struggling with one paranormal misadventure after another. Tired of her shenanigans, the Grey Brethren station her in Albuquerque, far out-of-the-way by paranormal standards. The arrival of a mysterious user of chaotic magic-a world destroying power-spells the end of Regan's trouble-free existence. Soon after, her vampire employers issue an ultimatum: catch the chaotic magic user or find a new job. Meanwhile, she has inadvertently started a war and developed a surprising attraction to a human. Sorting the mess out will require a little help from her friends, some growing up, and acceptance that she will never be a practitioner of conventional magic. ""The plot of this story is exciting and has many layers, the detail is extraordinary, and I was unable to put this book down until I got to the last page, and I didn't want to put it down even then. Hopefully there will be another Regan O'Connell story soon; I can never get too much of my new favorite anti-hero Breas."" The Romance Studio

Author : John Fullerton,Jan Olsson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1864620552

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Nordic Explorations by John Fullerton,Jan Olsson Pdf

Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 includes twenty previously unpublished essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at la Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. It brings together leading research on early cinema in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and includes essays on some of the major figures in Nordic cinema including Dreyer, Christensen, Sjöstrom and Stiller. Much current research in Nordic film before 1930 is also represented in this anthology with studies of the Norwegian travel genre, Nordic animated film, the relation of Nordic cinema to German and Russian film, the development of educational cinema and industrial film, as well as studies of individual films, filmmakers and national styles, and the relation of the medium to other forms of popular entertainment.The essays make a timely contribution to the more general study of cinema, afford authoritative and stimulating insight into research in the field and challenge many assumptions regarding Nordic cinema before 1930.

Author : Philip M. Herman
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480925267

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Behind the Canvas by Philip M. Herman Pdf

Behind the Canvas By Philip M. Herman Detective Jason Talbot is no stranger to the seedy side of the art world. His work on the Richmond, Virginia, art squad has given him an up-close view of the lengths criminals will go to to get what they want. But this time it’s even more personal for Talbot. Not only does he have his own mystery to solve in Richmond, but also a mystery in Paris involving his heiress girlfriend, Charlotte Bradford. Behind the Canvas, the second Jason Talbot novel, looks at the effects the Nazis had on the art world during their control of Paris in WWII and how it’s not always easy to distinguish between the good guys and bad guys.

Author : Bryan Methods
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512418835

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The Thief's Apprentice by Bryan Methods Pdf

Oliver, the meek son of a wealthy British industrialist, discovers the identity of a notorious thief, a man who has been skillfully evading Scotland Yard and snatching priceless artifacts for sport: Mr. Scant, his family butler. After first fearing for his life, Oliver discovers Mr. Scant's secret within a secret: the butler's crimes are actually a series of strikes against an underground group of business tycoons trying to master black magic.

Author : Chris Ewan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250031136

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The Good Thief's Guide to Berlin by Chris Ewan Pdf

You can't keep a good thief down . . . Charlie Howard is back and robbing the city of Berlin blind, until he witnesses a murder being committed right before his eyes Charlie Howard, part-time writer, part-time thief, has been engaged in a veritable spree of larceny and misappropriation since moving to Berlin, Germany. He's supposed to be working on his next novel. But high rent and a love for thrill-seeking has been hard on his word count. But Charlie's larcenous binge is interrupted by the call to duty—on behalf of Her Majesty's Government. Four embassy employees are suspected of stealing a sensitive item. Charlie is to break into their homes, find the culprit and recover the stolen property. But there's a catch. The item is so sensitive, Charlie isn't told what he's looking for. Not its size, not its weight, nothing. He's only told that he'll recognize it when he sees it. Charlie has been a successful thief because he follows his own rules, the first being "Don't get caught." Well, after he enters the first suspect's home, he has to add a new rule: "Don't admire the view." As Charlie stares across the street, he sees something he really wishes he hadn't—a woman being murdered. And that's just for starters. What follows is a wild adventure in the former cauldron of spies. With The Good Thief's Guide to Berlin, Chris Ewan shows why he was voted as one of America's favorite British authors by a Huffington Post poll. Clever and wildly entertaining, this is a mystery series that is "big fun" (The Seattle Times).

Author : Bill Freeman
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888627467

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Harbour Thieves by Bill Freeman Pdf

The adventures of Meg and John Bains continue with an exciting story of kids living by their wits in the Toronto of 1875. The fifth book in Bill Freeman's award-winning series finds 14-year-old Meg and her 12-year-old brother Jamie in search of work to help support their family. Jamie starts selling newspapers in the street and falls in with a gang of street kids and a couple of ne'er-do-well adults. Jamie is forced to join a theft ring and is caught by the police. But he has a hunch about where the loot is stashed on Toronto Island: finding it is his one chance to avoid a future in the reformatory.

Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554514717

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Thieves! by Andreas Schroeder Pdf

Willie Sutton was casing a bank when he noticed that the manager looked a lot like Sutton himself, so he walked into the vault, loaded up with banknotes, and calmly walked out. D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded $200,000 in payment, and parachuted from the aircraft. He was never captured. Other criminals in this book were no less brazen: - Arthur Barry, the greatest jewel thief in American criminal history - Vincente Perugia, who boldly stole one of the world’s greatest art treasures - Amil Dinsio, one of the most accomplished bank vault robbers in the U.S. - Victor Desmarais and Leo Martial, a hapless duo who bungled their getaway - James Landis, who stole two bricks of freshly printed banknotes from his employer—the U.S. Treasury - Adam Worth, the Napoleon of Crime - the Great Train Robbers, who planned one of the largest heists of all time - the five heisters of the Great Purolator Caper, whose ineptitude ensured capture Be prepared for some high-stakes action in THIEVES! While many ended their careers broke and disillusioned, these impresarios of crime make for great reading.

Author : Ageno. H. Monica
Publisher : Viken Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781521271292

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Dream Thief by Ageno. H. Monica Pdf

Kire was the great witch of legend, held captive under magic control of the Kleith chain by the Gura clan. Her purpose was to provide Magic which was channelled into the rule of Sarroy. Gura clan were not of Magic, but they were the fiercest of warriors. Kire’s captivity was legendary and lasted for hundreds of years before a foreseer spoke of a Spirit Doctor names Kissa, who was to be born in the land of Corros. It was she who was to break Kire from this magical spell. After this came to pass Kissa and Kire developed a deep friendship, however their lives were disrupted by the words of another foreseer. A prophesy that Kire would not bare. A new prophesy which revealed Kire getting captured again. She creates a spell that casts her into a different realm. Centuries later, Kire is returned to the lands, but she is not the same. The lands are not the same. There is another ruler, a far more feared entity. A Dream Thief.

Author : Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780857895615

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Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves by Jacqueline Yallop Pdf

During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate, and eccentric in the world. This book tells the stories of some of the 19th century's most intriguing collectors, following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle, to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.

Author : Jean-Claude Dunyach
Publisher : Jean-Claude DUNYACH
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934543726

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The Thieves of Silence by Jean-Claude Dunyach Pdf

This anthology collects 16 stories, with only four previously published in English, by the award-winning author of "The Night Orchid." "Jean-Claude Dunyach and his stories represent the workings of a multiplex engine of creation, its multiple cylinders all entrained in perfect unison, and whirring at high speculative RPMs!"--Paul Di Filippo.