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381) Wielki skok
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Polish
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Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is at work in Venice repairing an altarpiece when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must perform one simple task: Find the most famous missing painting in the world.Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.....
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"The Gardner Museum Heist explores all sides of this famously unsolved crime. It discusses police investigations, conspiracy theories, and more related to the biggest art heist in world history. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index." -- Amazon.
386) Priceless
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"It begins with a tantalizing clue: a recent photograph taken of Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man - one of the most priceless masterworks ever plundered by the Nazis, which disappeared and was believed destroyed. Now, with proof of its existence, the Polish government wants it back. One wrong move and it could vanish forever. Because bound together with the missing artwork are secrets that have remained buried for a reason. That's why they've enlisted...
387) The patriot
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A spy thriller featuring Russian agent Andrei Serotkin and Francesca McDermott, an American art historian. They become involved in a plot to hijack an exhibition of paintings in Germany and hold it for ransom. The plot is part of a scheme by diehard Communists to regain power in Russia. By the author of Ablaze.
389) Bezcenny: 2
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Nowa Fala Polskiego Kryminału volume 6
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Polish
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1945. Niemcy przegrywaja wojne, kazdy mysli tylko o sobie. Generalny Gubernator Hans Frank ukrywa najcenniejsze lupy, a wraz z nimi bezcenny sekret, który ma zapewnic mu nietykalnosc po wojnie. Skarb ginie bez sladu w tajemniczych okolicznosciach. 1946. Do Polski powracaja zrabowane dziela sztuki z "Dama z gronostajem" Leonarda da Vinci na czele. Brakuje "Portretu Mlodzienca" Rafaela Santi, który od tej pory pozostaje najcenniejszym zaginionym na...
390) Dom na Riwierze
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Polish
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Paris, 1939. Éliane Dufort lives in the French capital with her parents who run a small restaurant, an older brother and four younger sisters. Éliane loves art, works part-time at the Louvre and dreams of becoming an artist. However, soon comes war, Paris falls into the hands of the Nazis, and the world becomes a place full of horror and sorrow. Éliane - employed by the Germans as an assistant at the museum - starts playing a dangerous game: together...
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Después de una serie de incendios y robos en la Catedral de Turín, un equipo de investigadores tratan de resolver los crímenes. Ellos creen que alguien está tratando de robar el sudario de Jesús.
After a series of fires and break-ins at the Cathedral of Turin, a team of investigators try to solve the crimes. They believe that someone is trying to steal the burial shroud of Jesus.
392) Arte en la sangre
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Español
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1888. After a disastrous Ripper investigation, Holmes sinks into a deep depression. Watson can do nothing to help his friend, but an encoded letter from the French singer, Emmeline La Victoire, rekindles the detective's interest. The singer's illegitimate son, Emil, who is 10, has disappeared, and may have been kidnapped. As Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, they discover that Emil's father, the Earl of Pellingham and a famous art collector and humanitarian,...
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"Food-powered master criminal Saffron Chu is back, staring down the barrel of the biggest --and strangest-- score of her career. Return to the CHEW-niverse once again for Saffron's second blood-soaked adventure, and an alcoholic art heist that spans the centuries.." --
395) Na miłość boską!
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Polish
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W starych, wrocławskich kościołach w tajemniczych okolicznościach giną niewielkie, zabytkowe rzeźby. Śledztwo policji, prowadzone przez atrakcyjną, ale samotną panią komisarz, toczy się dość niemrawo. Kuria zatrudnia prywatnego detektywa, Bożydara Kluzickiego, urodzonego pechowca, specjalistę od śledztw zlecanych przez rozwodzących się małżonków, z których większość doprowadza do celu czystym przypadkiem. Całej akcji nadają...
396) Black water lilies
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"Three women lived in Giverny, the village in Normandy where Monet painted his legendary Water Lilies. The first was wicked, the second a liar, the third selfish. All three thought the village was a prison: a grand and beautiful garden, like a painting that could never escape its frame. But for thirteen days, the gates to the cage opened for them... Those thirteen days flew by, beginning with a murder on the first day and ending with another on the...
397) Dómina
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Un asesinato brutal en las calles de Venecia. Un robo de una obra de arte de valor incalculable. Un oscuro secreto del que no puede escapar. Un enemigo implacable que la persigue. Judith ha vuelto. Judith Rashleigh lo ha conseguido. Ahora vive en Venecia, rodeada de lojo y esplendor, disfrutando finalmente de la vida por la que ha matado. Pero alguien sabe lo que Judith ha hecho. Judith solo podrá salvarse cuando encuentre una obra de arte de gran...
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Bandette volume 4
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"The most unlikely of patrons hires Bandette, the greatest thief in the world, to pilfer a painting whose brushstrokes hold centuries of hidden messages. Unfortunately, a series of felonious rivals contrive to snatch the art for themselves!"--